Claim: San Jose, California has a smaller population than San Diego.
Evidence: With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908 , it is the third most populous city in California -LRB- after Los Angeles and San Diego -RRB- and the tenth most populous in United States.
With an estimated population of 1,394,928 as of July 1 , 2015 , San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California.