page_title: Tulare County, California
section_title: Adjacent counties
hierarchical_section_title: Tulare County, California / Geography / Adjacent counties
caption_attribution_description: Mount Whitney
context_page_description: Tulare County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 442,179. Its county seat is Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. Drained for agricultural development, the site is now in Kings County, which was created in 1893 from the western portion of the formerly larger Tulare County.
  Tulare County comprises the Visalia-Porterville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is located south of Fresno, spanning from the San Joaquin Valley east to the Sierra Nevada.
  Sequoia National Park is located in the county, as are part of Kings Canyon National Park, in its northeast corner, and part of Mount Whitney, on its eastern border. As of the 2010 census, the population was 442,179, up from 368,021 at the 2000 census.
context_section_description: Fresno County—north
  Inyo County—east
  Kern County—south
  Kings County—west
caption: Mount Whitney is located on the Tulare-Inyo County line.
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