Pittsburg, California

Contra Costa County

06-57456

Pittsburg is a city in Contra Costa County in the U.S. state of California, United States, with 61,500 inhabitants ( 2004). The geographic coordinates are: 38.02 ° N, 121.89 ° West. The metropolitan area has a size of 43.6 km ².

A sister city is Shimonoseki (Japan).

Name Variants

The city has some name variants:

• Black Diamond
• City of New York of the Pacific
• New York of the Pacific
• Pittsburgh

Personalities

• Karen Vogt (b. 1949), mathematician
• Scott Molina ( born 1960 ), triathlete and Ironman World Champion
• Dante Basco ( born 1975 ), actor, dancer and rapper