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___MASK80___ ( or ; from French " ___MASK80___ " , " kind " or " sort ", from Latin " ___MASK100___ " ( stem " gener -"), Greek  , " gés ") A ___MASK20___ is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover ___MASK20___ topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . A ___MASK68___ is an administrative center , seat of ___MASK53___ , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . The Real Housewives of Orange ___MASK38___ ( abbreviated RHOC ) is an American ___MASK78___ ___MASK5___ that premiered on March 21 , 2006 , on Bravo . It has aired ten seasons and focuses on the personal and ___MASK92___ lives of several women residing in Orange ___MASK38___ , California . The ___MASK5___ originally focused on Kimberly Bryant , Jo De La Rosa , Vicki Gunvalson , Jeana Keough , and Lauri Waring ( now Peterson ) ; the current lineup of housewives consists of Gunvalson , Tamra Barney ( now Judge ) , Heather Dubrow , Shannon Beador , and Meghan King Edmonds . Of the original housewives , Bryant and De La Rosa respectively left after the first and second seasons , while Peterson and Keough respectively stopped filming during production of the fourth and fifth seasons . The remaining housewives joined in later seasons ; Judge in the third , Dubrow in the seventh , Beador in the ninth , and Edmonds in the tenth . Other housewives include Tammy Knickerbocker ( season 2 -- 3 ) , Quinn Fry ( season 3 ) , Gretchen Rossi ( season 4 -- 8 ) , Lynne Curtin ( season 4 -- 5 ) , Alexis Bellino ( season 5 -- 8 ) , Peggy Tanous ( season 6 ) , Lydia McLaughlin ( season 8 ) , and Lizzie Rovsek ( season 9 ) . Its success has allowed for the development of The Real Housewives franchise and similar spin - off ___MASK5___ based in New York City , Atlanta , New Jersey , Washington , D . C . , Beverly Hills , Miami , Potomac and Dallas . The Real Housewives of Orange ___MASK38___ has additionally resulted in the conceptions of the spin - offs Date My Ex : Jo & Slade and Tamra ' s OC Wedding . A media ___MASK55___ is a set of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work ( usually that of fiction ), such as a film , a work of literature , a ___MASK34___ or a video game . A media ___MASK55___ is characterized by its components generally ___MASK1___ a common ___MASK62___ . California is the most populous ___MASK81___ in the United States and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific ___MASK98___ ) coast of the U . S ., California is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international ___MASK13___ with the Mexican ___MASK81___ of Baja California . The ___MASK81___ ___MASK75___ is Sacramento . Los Angeles is California ' s most populous city , and the country ' s second largest after New York City . The ___MASK81___ also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . A U . S . ___MASK81___ is a constituent political entity of the United States of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each ___MASK81___ holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States ___MASK49___ . Due to the shared sovereignty between each ___MASK81___ and the ___MASK49___ , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the ___MASK81___ in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). The Real Housewives is an American media ___MASK55___ that consists of several ___MASK78___ series broadcast on Bravo . The shows document the lives of several affluent housewives residing in varying regions throughout the United States . The first version , " The Real Housewives of Orange County ", premiered on March 21 , 2006 ; its success resulted in spin - off series located in New York City and Atlanta in 2008 ; New Jersey in 2009 ; Washington , D . C . and Beverly Hills in 2010 ; Miami in 2011 ; Potomac and Dallas in 2016 . The subsequent installments have proven similarly successful , and have resulted in numerous spin - off series of their own . ___MASK78___ is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real - life situations , and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors , although in some shows celebrities may participate . It differs from documentary television in that the focus tends to be on drama , personal conflict , and entertainment rather than educating viewers . The genre has various standard tropes , including " confessionals " ( also called " talking heads " or " interview segments ") used by cast members to express their thoughts , which often double as the shows ' narration . In competition - based reality shows , a notable subset , there are other common elements such as one participant being eliminated per episode , a panel of judges , and the concept of " immunity from elimination ." Orange ___MASK38___ is a ___MASK38___ in the U . S . state of California . As of the 2010 ___MASK20___ , the population was 3 , 010 , 232 making it the third - most populous ___MASK38___ in California , the sixth - most populous in the United States , and more populous than twenty - one U . S . states . Its ___MASK38___ seat is Santa Ana . It is the second most densely populated ___MASK38___ in the state , second only to San Francisco ___MASK38___ . The ___MASK38___ ' s four largest cities , Anaheim , Santa Ana , Irvine , and Huntington Beach each have populations exceeding 200 , 000 . Several of Orange ___MASK38___ ' s cities are on the Pacific coast , including Huntington Beach , Newport Beach , Laguna Beach , and San Clemente . A ___MASK34___ is a segment of content intended for broadcast on over - the - air , cable television , or Internet television , other than a commercial , trailer , or any other segment of content not serving as attraction for viewership . It may be a single production , or more commonly , a series of related productions ( also called a television series or a television show ).