The Southern Border Region is one of nine such geopolitical designations in the State of California, USA, used for economic analysis. The region is defined to include San Diego County and Imperial County, each of which borders Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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The Southern Border Region is adjacent to the Southern California Region, which consists of five counties. These regions were created in about 1998, when the California Regional Economies Project identified 9 regional economies. The California Economic Strategy Panel uses employment and wage information reported by employers for public policy-making, planning, and program administration. As an example of information reported by the panel, according to the 2009 report, the Gross Domestic Product of the region had grown 68.5% in five years. Other agencies such as the California Public Utilities Commission

California Public Utilities Commission

The California Public Utilities Commission is a regulatory agency which regulates privately owned public utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies...

 also provide reports for the region.

See also

• Metropolitan areas
  • San Diego metropolitan area
    San Diego metropolitan area
    The San Diego Metropolitan Area, also known as Greater San Diego and officially the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan area on the United States Pacific Coast. The U.S. Census of the Bureau defines the San Diego metropolitan area as encompassing all of...
    
    
  • El Centro metropolitan area
  • San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area
    San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area
    San Diego–Tijuana, also known as Tijuana–San Diego, is an international metropolitan area, or conurbation, on the border between the two large North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The region consists of San Diego County in the...
    
    
  • Mexicali–Calexico metropolitan area
• Metropolitan planning agencies
  • San Diego Association of Governments
    San Diego Association of Governments
    The San Diego Association of Governments is an association of local San Diego County governments. It is the metropolitan planning organization for the County, with policy makers consisting of mayors, councilmembers, and a County Supervisors, and also has capital planning and fare setting powers...
    
    
  • Southern California Association of Governments
    Southern California Association of Governments
    The Southern California Association of Governments is the metropolitan planning organization of six of the ten counties in Southern California, serving Imperial County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and Ventura County...
    
    
• List of California economic regions