More than 300 million square feet of warehouses -- chiefly for handling goods imported through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach -- have proliferated across California's Inland Empire:



Satellite image of container-handling warehouses near the city of Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County
 (via Google Earth):
 



 Zooming out to show a cluster of such logistics facilities around Rancho Cucamonga.  For size comparison, see the houses that appear as dots in a residential area along the right side of the photo:




Other clusters of warehouses near Ontario and Chino, also in San Bernardino County.  LA-Ontario International Airport is at the upper right:

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Warehouses in Los Angeles County:





Shipping containers accumulating near Shafter, Calif., on formerly agricultural land.





Containers at the Port of Long Beach:

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