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class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>Russian presence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russian_presence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mexican_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mexican_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.4</span> <span>Mexican era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mexican_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-American_interest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#American_interest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.5</span> <span>American interest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-American_interest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Californian_independence_and_beginning_of_the_United_States_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Californian_independence_and_beginning_of_the_United_States_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.6</span> <span>Californian independence and beginning of the United States era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Californian_independence_and_beginning_of_the_United_States_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gold_Rush_and_California_statehood" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gold_Rush_and_California_statehood"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Gold Rush and California statehood</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gold_Rush_and_California_statehood-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Population_and_agricultural_expansion_(1855–1899)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population_and_agricultural_expansion_(1855–1899)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Population and agricultural expansion (1855–1899)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population_and_agricultural_expansion_(1855–1899)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Population" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Population</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parks_and_other_protected_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parks_and_other_protected_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Parks and other protected areas</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Parks_and_other_protected_areas-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Parks and other protected areas subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Parks_and_other_protected_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-National_Park_System" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#National_Park_System"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>National Park System</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_Park_System-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-National_Monuments_and_other_federally_protected_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#National_Monuments_and_other_federally_protected_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>National Monuments and other federally protected areas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_Monuments_and_other_federally_protected_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Other</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Educational_institutions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Educational_institutions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Educational institutions</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Educational_institutions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Educational institutions subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Educational_institutions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Public" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Public</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Private" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Private"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Private</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Private-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Research" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Research"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.3</span> <span>Research</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Research-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Counties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Counties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Counties</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Counties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Regions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50,000_inhabitants" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50,000_inhabitants"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Cities and towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50,000_inhabitants-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Cities and towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50,000_inhabitants-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Metropolitan_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Metropolitan_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Metropolitan areas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Metropolitan_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Major_business_districts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_business_districts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>Major business districts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_business_districts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transportation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transportation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Transportation</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Transportation-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Transportation subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Transportation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Airports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Airports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.1</span> <span>Airports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Airports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Railroad" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Railroad"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.2</span> <span>Railroad</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Railroad-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Major_transit_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_transit_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.3</span> <span>Major transit organizations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_transit_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Major_transit_ferries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_transit_ferries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.4</span> <span>Major transit ferries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_transit_ferries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Freeways" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Freeways"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.5</span> <span>Freeways</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Freeways-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Interstate_highways" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interstate_highways"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.5.1</span> <span>Interstate highways</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interstate_highways-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-U.S._Routes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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.infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Northern California</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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.trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px;border:none"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:138px;max-width:138px"><div style="height:99px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg/136px-Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg/204px-Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg/272px-Golden_Gate_Bridge_San_Francisco_April_2011_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4003" data-file-height="2912" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge" title="Golden Gate Bridge">Golden Gate Bridge</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:150px;max-width:150px"><div style="height:99px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg/148px-Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg" decoding="async" width="148" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg/222px-Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg/296px-Northern_California_Coast_as_seen_from_Muir_Beach_Overlook.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3663" data-file-height="2454" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center">Northern California coast as seen from <a href="/wiki/Muir_Beach" class="mw-redirect" title="Muir Beach">Muir Beach</a> Overlook</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:142px;max-width:142px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg/140px-Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg/210px-Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg/280px-Squaw_Valley_Gondola.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4946" data-file-height="3365" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center">View of a gondola in <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe" title="Lake Tahoe">Lake Tahoe</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:146px;max-width:146px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Natural_Bridges_State_Park_(16328059535).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg/144px-Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg/216px-Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg/288px-Natural_Bridges_State_Park_%2816328059535%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2144" data-file-height="1424" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Bridges_State_Beach" title="Natural Bridges State Beach">Natural Bridges State Beach</a> in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California" title="Santa Cruz, California">Santa Cruz</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:86px;max-width:86px"><div style="height:62px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Muir_Woods_National_Monument_(47879029461).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg/84px-Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="84" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg/126px-Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg/168px-Muir_Woods_National_Monument_%2847879029461%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2250" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Muir_Woods_National_Monument" title="Muir Woods National Monument">Muir Woods National Monument</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div style="height:62px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/200px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/300px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/400px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4148" data-file-height="1304" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> skyline</div></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_California_counties_in_red.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Northern California counties in red"><img alt="Northern California counties in red" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Northern_California_counties_in_red.png/250px-Northern_California_counties_in_red.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Northern_California_counties_in_red.png/375px-Northern_California_counties_in_red.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Northern_California_counties_in_red.png/500px-Northern_California_counties_in_red.png 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="676" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Northern California counties in red</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major cities</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a><br /><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Fresno" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno">Fresno</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento">Sacramento</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Oakland" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland">Oakland</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California" title="Santa Rosa, California">Santa Rosa</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Salinas,_California" title="Salinas, California">Salinas</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hayward,_California" title="Hayward, California">Hayward</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California">Visalia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Chico,_California" title="Chico, California">Chico</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a><br /><a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo</a><br /><a href="/wiki/San_Rafael,_California" title="San Rafael, California">San Rafael</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Eureka,_California" title="Eureka, California">Eureka</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Susanville,_California" title="Susanville, California">Susanville</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2020)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">15,775,319</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Northern California</b> (commonly shortened to <b>NorCal</b>) is a geographic and cultural region that comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_California" title="List of counties in California">58 counties</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Northern California in its largest definition is determined by dividing the state into two regions, the other being <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a>. The main northern population centers include the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> (anchored by the cities of <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Sacramento">Greater Sacramento</a> area (anchored by the state capital <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding, California</a>, area south of the <a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Fresno" title="Metropolitan Fresno">Metropolitan Fresno</a> area (anchored by the city of <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a>). Northern California also contains <a href="/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens" title="Sequoia sempervirens">redwood</a> forests, along with most of the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Yosemite_Valley" title="Yosemite Valley">Yosemite Valley</a> and part of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe" title="Lake Tahoe">Lake Tahoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta" title="Mount Shasta">Mount Shasta</a> (the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after <a href="/wiki/Mount_Rainier" title="Mount Rainier">Mount Rainier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>), and most of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)" title="Central Valley (California)">Central Valley</a>, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions. Northern California is also home to <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>, the global headquarters for some of the most powerful tech and Internet-related companies in the world, including <a href="/wiki/Meta_Platforms" title="Meta Platforms">Meta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alphabet_Inc." title="Alphabet Inc.">Google</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Northern_California_Megaregion" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern California Megaregion">Northern California Megaregion</a>, one of the 11 <a href="/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_States" title="Megaregions of the United States">megaregions of the United States</a> is centered in Northern California, and extends from Metropolitan Fresno north to Greater Sacramento, and from the Bay Area east across the <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a> state line to encompass the entire <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe" title="Lake Tahoe">Lake Tahoe</a>–<a href="/wiki/Reno,_Nevada" title="Reno, Nevada">Reno</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-spur.org_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spur.org-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Evidence of <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> habitation in the area dates from at least 19,000 years ago<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and successive waves of arrivals led to one of the most densely populated areas of pre-Columbian North America. The arrival of European <a href="/wiki/List_of_explorers" title="List of explorers">explorers</a> from the early 16th to the mid-18th centuries did not establish European settlements in northern California. In 1770, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_California" title="Spanish missions in California">Spanish mission</a> at <a href="/wiki/Monterey,_California" title="Monterey, California">Monterey</a> was the first European settlement in the area, followed by other missions along the coast—eventually extending as far north as <a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County,_California" title="Sonoma County, California">Sonoma County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NorCal_county_map_(labeled_and_colored).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png/220px-NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png/330px-NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png/440px-NorCal_county_map_%28labeled_and_colored%29.png 2x" data-file-width="7461" data-file-height="6772" /></a><figcaption>Map of northern California counties</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Northern California</b> is not a formal geographic designation. Historically, the state was divided by the <a href="/wiki/Tehachapi_Mountains" title="Tehachapi Mountains">Tehachapi Mountains</a> which was a barrier to travelers before highways were built, and remains a <a href="/wiki/Bioregion" title="Bioregion">bioregion</a> barrier. This geographical barrier curves from <a href="/wiki/Point_Conception" title="Point Conception">Point Conception</a> at the Pacific Ocean eastward through <a href="/wiki/Mount_Pinos" title="Mount Pinos">Mount Pinos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tejon_Pass" title="Tejon Pass">Tejon Pass</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tehachapi_Pass" title="Tehachapi Pass">Tehachapi Pass</a>, then cuts northward through the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a> mountain range to <a href="/wiki/Mount_Patterson_(California)" title="Mount Patterson (California)">Mount Patterson</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a> border. The <a href="/wiki/Mojave_Desert" title="Mojave Desert">Mojave Desert</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Basin_Desert" title="Great Basin Desert">Great Basin Desert</a> are separated from Northern California by mountain ranges in this definition of bioregions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>California's north–south midway division is around <a href="/wiki/37th_parallel_north" title="37th parallel north">37°N</a>, near the level of <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Hill,_California" title="Morgan Hill, California">Morgan Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chowchilla,_California" title="Chowchilla, California">Chowchilla</a>. (The geographic center of California is at <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Northern_California&params=37_09_58_N_119_26_58_W_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">37°09′58″N</span> <span class="longitude">119°26′58″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.16611°N 119.44944°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.16611; -119.44944</span></span></span></a></span></span> near <a href="/wiki/North_Fork,_California" title="North Fork, California">North Fork</a>, northeast of Fresno.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) Popularly, though, "Northern California" usually refers to the state's northernmost 48 counties. Because of California's large size and diverse geography, the state can be subdivided in other ways as well. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)" title="Central Valley (California)">Central Valley</a> is a region that is distinct both culturally and topographically from coastal California, though in northern versus southern California divisions, the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Valley" title="Sacramento Valley">Sacramento Valley</a> and most of the <a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a> are usually placed in northern California. Some observers describe three partitions of California, with north and south sections separated by <a href="/wiki/Central_California" title="Central California">Central California</a>. </p><p>The state is often considered as having an additional division north of the urban areas of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a> metropolitan areas. Extreme northern residents have felt under-represented in state government and, in 1941, attempted to form a new state with southwestern Oregon to be called <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_(Pacific_state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jefferson (Pacific state)">Jefferson</a>, or more recently to introduce legislation to <a href="/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California" title="Partition and secession in California">split California into two or three states</a>. </p><p>The coastal area north of the Bay Area is often referred to as the <a href="/wiki/North_Coast_(California)" title="North Coast (California)">North Coast</a>, touching the counties of <a href="/wiki/Mendocino_County,_California" title="Mendocino County, California">Mendocino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_County,_California" title="Lake County, California">Lake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California" title="Humboldt County, California">Humboldt</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Del_Norte_County,_California" title="Del Norte County, California">Del Norte</a>. The interior region north of Sacramento metropolitan area is referred to by locals as the <b>Northstate</b>, consisting of about 20 counties.<sup id="cite_ref-HCN2018_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HCN2018-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Northern California" was used by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Draper" title="Tim Draper">Tim Draper</a> as the name of the northernmost state to be created by splitting California into three new states. The bill, <a href="/wiki/Cal_3" title="Cal 3">Cal 3</a>, was prevented from appearing on the 2018 California ballot because of a constitutional review by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_California" title="Supreme Court of California">Supreme Court of California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significance">Significance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Significance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the events of the <a href="/wiki/California_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="California Gold Rush">California Gold Rush</a>, Northern California has been a leader on the world's economic, scientific, and cultural stages. From the development of gold mining techniques and logging practices in the 19th century that were later adopted around the world, to the development of world-famous and online business models (such as <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>, and <a href="/wiki/EBay" title="EBay">eBay</a>), northern California has been at the forefront of new ways of doing business. In science, advances range from being <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory">the first</a> to isolate and name fourteen <a href="/wiki/Transuranic" class="mw-redirect" title="Transuranic">transuranic</a> <a href="/wiki/Chemical_element" title="Chemical element">chemical elements</a>, to breakthroughs in microchip technology. Cultural contributions include the works of <a href="/wiki/Ansel_Adams" title="Ansel Adams">Ansel Adams</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Beatniks" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatniks">beatniks</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Love" title="Summer of Love">Summer of Love</a>, <a href="/wiki/California_wine" title="California wine">winemaking</a>, the cradle of the international environmental movement, and the open, casual workplace first popularized in the <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a> <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_boom" class="mw-redirect" title="Dot-com boom">dot-com boom</a> and now widely in use around the world. Other examples of innovation across diverse fields range from <a href="/wiki/Genentech" title="Genentech">Genentech</a> (development and commercialization of genetic engineering) to <a href="/wiki/CrossFit" title="CrossFit">CrossFit</a> as a pioneer in extreme human fitness and training. It is also home to one of the largest Air Force Bases on the West Coast, and the largest in California by square meters, <a href="/wiki/Travis_Air_Force_Base" title="Travis Air Force Base">Travis Air Force Base</a>. </p> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cities">Cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Northern California's largest <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">metropolitan area</a> is the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> which consists of 9 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties. The Bay Area consists of the major cities of <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, and their many <a href="/wiki/Suburbs" class="mw-redirect" title="Suburbs">suburbs</a>. Although not a part of the Bay Area, in recent years the Bay Area has drawn more commuters from as far as <a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)" title="Central Valley (California)">Central Valley</a> cities such as <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turlock,_California" title="Turlock, California">Turlock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto</a>. These cities in the central part of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills may be viewed as part of a single <a href="/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megalopolis (city type)">megalopolis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-spur.org_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spur.org-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2010 U.S. Census showed that the Bay Area grew at a faster rate than the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Los Angeles Area">Greater Los Angeles Area</a> while Greater Sacramento had the largest growth rate of any metropolitan area in California. </p><p>The state's larger inland cities are considered part of Northern California in cases when the state is divided into two parts. Key cities in the region which are not in major metropolitan areas include <a href="/wiki/Eureka,_California" title="Eureka, California">Eureka</a> on the far <a href="/wiki/North_Coast_(California)" title="North Coast (California)">North Coast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a>, at the northern end of the Central Valley, <a href="/wiki/Chico,_California" title="Chico, California">Chico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yuba_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuba City">Yuba City</a> in the mid-north of the Central Valley, as well as <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California">Visalia</a> on the southern end. Though smaller in each case, with the notable exception of <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a>, than the larger cities of the general region, these smaller regional centers are often of historical and economic importance for their respective size, due to their locations, which are primarily rural or otherwise isolated. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 963.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 961.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="San Jose, the most populous city in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and the tenth largest city in the United States."><img alt="San Jose, the most populous city in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and the tenth largest city in the United States." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg/1442px-Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg" decoding="async" width="962" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg/2162px-Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg/2883px-Panoramic_Downtown_San_Jose.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6711" data-file-height="978" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>, the most populous city in Northern California and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a>, and the tenth largest city in the United States. </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 424.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 422.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="San Francisco, the second most populated city in Northern California and a major economic, cultural, and financial center for the region."><img alt="San Francisco, the second most populated city in Northern California and a major economic, cultural, and financial center for the region." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg/634px-SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="423" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg/950px-SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg/1267px-SanFran_downtown_panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3015" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, the second most populated city in Northern California and a major economic, cultural, and financial center for the region.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 228px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 226px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chukchansi.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fresno, the fourth most populated city in northern California, as seen from Chukchansi Park. Fresno is the largest city by population in the San Joaquin Valley."><img alt="Fresno, the fourth most populated city in northern California, as seen from Chukchansi Park. Fresno is the largest city by population in the San Joaquin Valley." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Chukchansi.jpg/339px-Chukchansi.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Chukchansi.jpg/508px-Chukchansi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Chukchansi.jpg/678px-Chukchansi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Fresno" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno">Fresno</a>, the fourth most populated city in northern California, as seen from <a href="/wiki/Chukchansi_Park" title="Chukchansi Park">Chukchansi Park</a>. Fresno is the largest city by population in the <a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 502.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 500.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sacramento_Skyline_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sacramento, the third most populous city in Northern California, the capital city of the State of California, and the principal city of the Sacramento metropolitan area."><img alt="Sacramento Skyline (cropped).jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg/751px-Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="501" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg/1127px-Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg/1502px-Sacramento_Skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4030" data-file-height="1127" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>, the third most populous city in Northern California, the capital city of the State of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, and the principal city of the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_metropolitan_area" title="Sacramento metropolitan area">Sacramento metropolitan area</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 752.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 750.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Oakland, the fifth-largest city by population in Northern California. Oakland is the major port city of the region and the center of Northern California's African American community."><img alt="Oakland, the fifth-largest city by population in Northern California. Oakland is the major port city of the region and the center of Northern California's African American community." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg/1126px-Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg" decoding="async" width="751" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg/1689px-Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg/2252px-Panorama-downtown-oakland_by_Daniel_Ramirez.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4289" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, the fifth-largest city by population in Northern California. Oakland is the major <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Oakland" title="Port of Oakland">port city</a> of the region and the center of Northern California's <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African American</a> community.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory_to_1847">Prehistory to 1847</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Prehistory to 1847"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inhabited for millennia by <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Shasta_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shasta (tribe)">Shasta</a> tribe in the north, to the <a href="/wiki/Miwok" title="Miwok">Miwoks</a> in the central coast and Sierra Nevada, to the <a href="/wiki/Yokuts" title="Yokuts">Yokuts</a> of the southern Central Valley, northern California was among the most densely populated areas of pre-Columbian North America.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="European_explorers">European explorers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: European explorers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first European to explore the coast was <a href="/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo" title="Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo">Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo</a>, sailing for the Spanish Crown; in 1542, Cabrillo's expedition sailed perhaps as far north as the <a href="/wiki/Rogue_River_(Oregon)" title="Rogue River (Oregon)">Rogue River</a> in today's <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning in 1565, the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Manila_galleon" title="Manila galleon">Manila galleons</a> crossed the Pacific Ocean from <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> to the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, with silver and gemstones from Mexico. The Manila galleons returned across the northern Pacific, and reached North America usually off the coast of northern California, and then continued south with their Asian trade goods to Mexico. </p><p>In 1579, northern California was visited by the English explorer <a href="/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Sir Francis Drake</a> who landed north of today's <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> and claimed the area for England. In 1602, the Spaniard <a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Vizca%C3%ADno" title="Sebastián Vizcaíno">Sebastián Vizcaíno</a> explored California's coast as far north as <a href="/wiki/Monterey_Bay" title="Monterey Bay">Monterey Bay</a>, where he went ashore. Other Spanish explorers sailed along the coast of northern California for the next 150 years, but no settlements were established.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spanish_era">Spanish era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Spanish era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first European inhabitants were Spanish missionaries, who built <a href="/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_California" title="Spanish missions in California">missions</a> along the California coast. The mission at <a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Carlos_Borromeo_de_Carmelo" title="Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo">Monterey</a> was first established in 1770, and at <a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission San Francisco de Asís">San Francisco</a> in 1776. In all, ten missions stretched along the coast from <a href="/wiki/Sonoma,_California" title="Sonoma, California">Sonoma</a> to Monterey (and still more missions to the southern tip of <a href="/wiki/Baja_California" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>). In 1786, the <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> signaled their interest in the northern California area by sending a voyage of exploration to Monterey. </p><p>The first twenty years of the 19th century continued the colonization of the northern California coast by Spain. By 1820, Spanish influence extended inland approximately 25 to 50 miles (80 km) from the missions. Outside of this zone, perhaps 200,000 to 250,000 Native Americans continued to lead traditional lives. The <a href="/wiki/Adams-On%C3%ADs_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Adams-Onís Treaty">Adams-Onís Treaty</a>, signed in 1819 between Spain and the young United States, set the northern boundary of the Spanish claims at the 42nd parallel, effectively creating today's northern boundary of northern California. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Russian_presence">Russian presence</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Russian presence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1812, the Russian state-sponsored <a href="/wiki/Russian-American_Company" title="Russian-American Company">Russian-American Company</a> established <a href="/wiki/Fort_Ross" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Ross">Fort Ross</a>, a fur trading outpost on the coast of today's <a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonoma County">Sonoma County</a>. Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian settlement, located some 60 miles (97 km) north of Spanish colonies in San Francisco. In 1839, the settlement was abandoned due to its inability to meet resource demands, and the increasing Mexican and American presence in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mexican_era">Mexican era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Mexican era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Mexican_War_of_Independence" title="Mexican War of Independence">Mexico gained independence</a> from Spain in 1821, Mexico continued Spain's missions and settlements in northern California as well as Spain's territorial claims. The Mexican <i><a href="/wiki/Californio" class="mw-redirect" title="Californio">Californios</a></i> (Spanish-speaking Californians) in these settlements primarily traded cattle hides and <a href="/wiki/Tallow" title="Tallow">tallow</a> with American and European merchant vessels. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trees_and_sunshine.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/220px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/330px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/440px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens" title="Sequoia sempervirens">Coast Redwoods</a> in <a href="/wiki/Muir_Woods_National_Monument" title="Muir Woods National Monument">Muir Woods National Monument</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Marin_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Marin County">Marin County</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1825, the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> established a major trading post <a href="/wiki/Fort_Vancouver" title="Fort Vancouver">just north</a> of today's <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>. British fur trappers and hunters then used the <a href="/wiki/Siskiyou_Trail" title="Siskiyou Trail">Siskiyou Trail</a> to travel throughout northern California.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The leader of a further French scientific expedition to northern California, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Duflot_de_Mofras" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene Duflot de Mofras">Eugene Duflot de Mofras</a>, wrote in 1840 "<i>...it is evident that California will belong to whatever nation chooses to send there a man-of-war and two hundred men</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-hhb1840_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hhb1840-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 260">: 260 </span></sup> By the 1830s, a significant number of non-<i>Californios</i> had immigrated to northern California. Chief among these was <a href="/wiki/John_Sutter" title="John Sutter">John Sutter</a>, a European immigrant from <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, who was granted 48,827 acres (197.60 km<sup>2</sup>) <a href="/wiki/Sutter%27s_Fort" title="Sutter's Fort">centered</a> on the area of today's <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="American_interest">American interest</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: American interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>American trappers began entering northern California in the 1830s.<sup id="cite_ref-hhb1840_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hhb1840-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 263–4">: 263–4 </span></sup> In 1834, American visionary <a href="/wiki/Ewing_Young" title="Ewing Young">Ewing Young</a> led a herd of horses and mules over the <a href="/wiki/Siskiyou_Trail" title="Siskiyou Trail">Siskiyou Trail</a> from missions in northern California to British and American settlements in <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>. Although a small number of American traders and trappers had lived in northern California since the early 1830s, the first organized overland party of American immigrants to arrive in northern California was the <a href="/wiki/Bartleson-Bidwell_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartleson-Bidwell Party">Bartleson-Bidwell Party</a> of 1841 via the new <a href="/wiki/California_Trail" title="California Trail">California Trail</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hhb1840_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hhb1840-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 263–273">: 263–273 </span></sup> Also in 1841, an overland exploratory party of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Exploring_Expedition" title="United States Exploring Expedition">United States Exploring Expedition</a> came down the <a href="/wiki/Siskiyou_Trail" title="Siskiyou Trail">Siskiyou Trail</a> from the Pacific Northwest. In 1846, the <a href="/wiki/Donner_Party" title="Donner Party">Donner Party</a> earned notoriety as they struggled to enter northern California. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Californian_independence_and_beginning_of_the_United_States_era">Californian independence and beginning of the United States era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Californian independence and beginning of the United States era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a> was declared on May 13, 1846, it took almost two months (mid-July 1846) for word to get to California. On June 14, 1846, some 30 non-Mexican settlers, mostly Americans, staged a revolt and seized the small Mexican garrison in Sonoma. They raised the "<a href="/wiki/Flag_of_California" title="Flag of California">Bear Flag</a>" of the <a href="/wiki/California_Republic" title="California Republic">California Republic</a> over Sonoma. The "Bear Flag Republic" lasted only 26 days, until the U.S. Army, led by <a href="/wiki/John_Fr%C3%A9mont" class="mw-redirect" title="John Frémont">John Frémont</a>, took over on July 9.<sup id="cite_ref-1846-54_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1846-54-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The California state flag today is based on this original Bear Flag, and continues to contain the words "California Republic." </p><p>Commodore <a href="/wiki/John_Drake_Sloat" class="mw-redirect" title="John Drake Sloat">John Drake Sloat</a> ordered his naval forces to occupy <a href="/wiki/Yerba_Buena,_California" title="Yerba Buena, California">Yerba Buena</a> (present <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>) on July 7 and within days American forces controlled San Francisco, Sonoma, and <a href="/wiki/Sutter%27s_Fort" title="Sutter's Fort">Sutter's Fort</a> in Sacramento.<sup id="cite_ref-1846-54_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1846-54-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo" title="Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo">treaty</a> ending the Mexican–American War was signed on February 2, 1848, and Mexico formally ceded <a href="/wiki/Alta_California" title="Alta California">Alta California</a> (including all of present-day northern California) to the United States. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moon_Lake.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Moon_Lake.jpg/220px-Moon_Lake.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Moon_Lake.jpg/330px-Moon_Lake.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Moon_Lake.jpg/440px-Moon_Lake.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption>Moon Lake in <a href="/wiki/Lassen_County,_California" title="Lassen County, California">Lassen County, California</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gold_Rush_and_California_statehood">Gold Rush and California statehood</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Gold Rush and California statehood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/California_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="California Gold Rush">California Gold Rush</a> took place almost exclusively in northern California from 1848 to 1855. It began on January 24, 1848, when <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> was discovered at <a href="/wiki/Sutter%27s_Mill" title="Sutter's Mill">Sutter's Mill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Coloma,_California" title="Coloma, California">Coloma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-santos_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-santos-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> News of the discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 people coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco</a> grew from a tiny hamlet, home to about 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Californios" title="Californios">Californios</a> into a <a href="/wiki/Boomtown" title="Boomtown">boomtown</a> of over 50,000 people in the 12 years between 1848 and 1860.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New roads, churches, and schools were built, and new towns sprung up, aided in part by the development of new methods of transportation such as <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamships</a> which came into regular service and <a href="/wiki/California_and_the_railroads" class="mw-redirect" title="California and the railroads">railroads</a> which now connected the coasts. The Gold Rush also had negative effects: <a href="/wiki/California_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="California Genocide">American colonists chose to use genocide as a tool</a> to remove the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California" title="Indigenous peoples of California">Indigenous people</a> so that they could look for gold on their land. </p><p>The Gold Rush also increased pressure to make California a <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a>. Pro-slavery politicians initially attempted to permanently divide northern and southern California at 36 degrees, 30 minutes, the line of the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Compromise" title="Missouri Compromise">Missouri Compromise</a>. But instead, the passing of the <a href="/wiki/Compromise_of_1850" title="Compromise of 1850">Compromise of 1850</a> enabled California to be admitted to the Union as a <a href="/wiki/Slave_and_free_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave and free states">free state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_and_agricultural_expansion_(1855–1899)"><span id="Population_and_agricultural_expansion_.281855.E2.80.931899.29"></span>Population and agricultural expansion (1855–1899)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Population and agricultural expansion (1855–1899)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg/220px-Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg/330px-Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg/440px-Mount_Shasta_Farm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="635" data-file-height="424" /></a><figcaption>Farm near <a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta" title="Mount Shasta">Mount Shasta</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The decades following the Gold Rush brought dramatic expansion to northern California, both in population and economically – particularly in agriculture. The completion of the <a href="/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad" title="First transcontinental railroad">First transcontinental railroad</a> in 1869, with its terminus in Sacramento (and then later, Oakland), meant that northern California's agricultural produce (and some manufactured goods) could now be shipped economically to the rest of the United States. In return, immigrants from the rest of the United States (and Europe) could comfortably come to northern California. A network of railroads spread throughout northern California, and in 1887, a <a href="/wiki/Siskiyou_Trail" title="Siskiyou Trail">rail link</a> was completed to the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" title="Pacific Northwest">Pacific Northwest</a>. Almost all of these railways came under the control of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Pacific_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Pacific Railroad">Southern Pacific Railroad</a>, headquartered in San Francisco, and San Francisco continued as a financial and cultural center. </p><p>Substantial tensions during this era included nativist sentiments (primarily against Chinese immigrants),<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> tensions between the increasing power of the Southern Pacific Railroad and small farmers, and the beginnings of the labor union movement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg/220px-ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg/330px-ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg/440px-ISS-37_Northern_California_region.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4256" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption>Satellite image of Northern California at night</figcaption></figure> <p>Northern California's economy is noted for being the de facto world leader in high-tech industry (<a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>, <a href="/wiki/Semiconductor" title="Semiconductor">semiconductor</a>/micro-electronics, <a href="/wiki/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology">biotechnology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medical_devices" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical devices">medical devices</a>/instruments), as well as being known for <a href="/wiki/Environmental_engineering" title="Environmental engineering">clean power</a>, biomedical, government, and finance. Other significant industries include tourism, shipping, manufacturing, and agriculture. Its economy is diverse, though more concentrated in high technology. It is home to the state capital, as well as several Western United States regional offices in San Francisco, such as the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Circuit Court</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png/170px-Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png/255px-Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png/340px-Northern_California_K%C3%B6ppen.png 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="8519" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate types</a> in northern California</figcaption></figure> <p>Northern California has a warm or mild to cool climate, in which the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra mountains</a> gets snow in the late fall through winter and occasionally into spring. Summers are mild along the coast and generally warm and dry, while winters are cool and usually wet. The high temperatures range from 50s °F (10–15 °C) to 30s °F (−1 – +4 °C) in the winters while summers temperature range is 90s °F (32–37 °C) to 60s °F (15–20 °C) or 50s °F (10–15 °C), with highs well into the 100s °F (37–42 °C) for the Sacramento region. Snow covers the mountains (generally above 3,000 feet (910 m)) in mid January through February. Fog occurs infrequently or occurs normally in the west and coast, especially in the summer, creating some of the coolest summer conditions in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the first decade of the 21st century, <a href="/wiki/Droughts_in_California" title="Droughts in California">droughts</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires" title="List of California wildfires">wildfires</a> have increased in frequency as a consequence of <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>86,105</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>346,714</td><td></td><td>302.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>516,089</td><td></td><td>48.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>772,778</td><td></td><td>49.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>961,628</td><td></td><td>24.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>1,147,725</td><td></td><td>19.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>1,569,141</td><td></td><td>36.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>2,003,075</td><td></td><td>27.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>2,632,273</td><td></td><td>31.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>3,066,654</td><td></td><td>16.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>4,654,248</td><td></td><td>51.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>6,318,482</td><td></td><td>35.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>7,849,575</td><td></td><td>24.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>9,359,160</td><td></td><td>19.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>11,490,926</td><td></td><td>22.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>13,234,136</td><td></td><td>15.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>14,573,946</td><td></td><td>10.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>15,775,319</td><td></td><td>8.2%</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The population of the forty-eight counties of northern California has shown a steady increase over the years.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The largest percentage increase outside the Gold Rush era (52%) came during the 1940s, as the region was the destination of many post-War veterans and their families, attracted by the greatly expanding industrial base and (often) by their time stationed in northern California during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The largest absolute increase occurred during the 1980s (over 2.1 million person increase), attracted by job opportunities in part by the expansion taking place in <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>–era expansion of the defense industry. Since the 2000 U.S. Census, Northern California has grown at a faster rate than Southern California due to the strong economic performances of the Bay Area and Sacramento.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png/440px-Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png/660px-Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png/880px-Ethnic_Origins_in_Northern_California.png 2x" data-file-width="7000" data-file-height="5000" /></a><figcaption>Ethnic origins in Northern California</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parks_and_other_protected_areas">Parks and other protected areas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Parks and other protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Park_System">National Park System</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: National Park System"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System">List of areas in the United States National Park System</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States" title="List of national parks of the United States">List of national parks of the United States</a></div> <p>The U.S. <a href="/wiki/National_Park_System" class="mw-redirect" title="National Park System">National Park System</a> controls a large and diverse group of parks in northern California. The best known is <a href="/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" title="Yosemite National Park">Yosemite National Park</a>, which is displayed on the reverse side of the <a href="/wiki/File:California_quarter,_reverse_side,_2005.jpg" title="File:California quarter, reverse side, 2005.jpg">California state quarter</a>. Other prominent parks are the <a href="/wiki/Kings_Canyon_National_Park" title="Kings Canyon National Park">Kings Canyon</a>-<a href="/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park" title="Sequoia National Park">Sequoia National Park</a> complex, <a href="/wiki/Redwood_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Redwood National Park">Redwood National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pinnacles_National_Park" title="Pinnacles National Park">Pinnacles National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lassen_Volcanic_National_Park" title="Lassen Volcanic National Park">Lassen Volcanic National Park</a> and the largest in the contiguous forty-eight states, <a href="/wiki/Death_Valley_National_Park" title="Death Valley National Park">Death Valley National Park</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Monuments_and_other_federally_protected_areas">National Monuments and other federally protected areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: National Monuments and other federally protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_monuments_of_the_United_States" title="List of national monuments of the United States">List of national monuments of the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Marine_Sanctuary" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Marine Sanctuary">United States National Marine Sanctuary</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Wildlife_Refuges_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Wildlife Refuges of the United States">List of National Wildlife Refuges of the United States</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_forests_of_the_United_States" title="List of national forests of the United States">List of national forests of the United States</a></div> <p>Other areas under federal protection include <a href="/wiki/Muir_Woods_National_Monument" title="Muir Woods National Monument">Muir Woods National Monument</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giant_Sequoia_National_Monument" title="Giant Sequoia National Monument">Giant Sequoia National Monument</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devils_Postpile_National_Monument" title="Devils Postpile National Monument">Devils Postpile National Monument</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lava_Beds_National_Monument" title="Lava Beds National Monument">Lava Beds National Monument</a>, <a href="/wiki/Point_Reyes_National_Seashore" title="Point Reyes National Seashore">Point Reyes National Seashore</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Monterey_Bay_National_Marine_Sanctuary" title="Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary">Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Cordell_Bank_National_Marine_Sanctuary" title="Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary">Cordell Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_Farallones_National_Marine_Sanctuary" title="Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary">Gulf of the Farallones</a> National Marine Sanctuaries (both off the coast of San Francisco). Included within the latter National Marine Sanctuary is the <a href="/wiki/Farallon_National_Wildlife_Refuge" class="mw-redirect" title="Farallon National Wildlife Refuge">Farallon National Wildlife Refuge</a>; this <a href="/wiki/National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="National Wildlife Refuge">National Wildlife Refuge</a> is one of approximately twenty-five such refuges in northern California. <a href="/wiki/National_forest_(United_States)" title="National forest (United States)">National forests</a> occupy large sections of northern California, including the <a href="/wiki/Shasta%E2%80%93Trinity_National_Forest" title="Shasta–Trinity National Forest">Shasta–Trinity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Klamath_National_Forest" title="Klamath National Forest">Klamath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modoc_National_Forest" title="Modoc National Forest">Modoc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lassen_National_Forest" title="Lassen National Forest">Lassen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mendocino_National_Forest" title="Mendocino National Forest">Mendocino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eldorado_National_Forest" title="Eldorado National Forest">Eldorado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tahoe_National_Forest" title="Tahoe National Forest">Tahoe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sequoia_National_Forest" title="Sequoia National Forest">Sequoia</a> national forests, among others. Included within (or adjacent to) national forests are federally protected wilderness areas, including the <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Alps_Wilderness" title="Trinity Alps Wilderness">Trinity Alps</a>, <a href="/wiki/Castle_Crags" title="Castle Crags">Castle Crags</a>, <a href="/wiki/Granite_Chief_Wilderness" title="Granite Chief Wilderness">Granite Chief</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Desolation_Wilderness" title="Desolation Wilderness">Desolation</a> wilderness areas. </p><p>In addition, the <a href="/wiki/California_Coastal_National_Monument" title="California Coastal National Monument">California Coastal National Monument</a> protects all islets, reefs, and rock outcroppings from the shore of northern California out to a distance of 12 nmi (22 km), along the entire northern California coastline. In addition, the National Park Service administers protected areas on <a href="/wiki/Alcatraz_Island" title="Alcatraz Island">Alcatraz Island</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_National_Recreation_Area" title="Golden Gate National Recreation Area">Golden Gate National Recreation Area</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whiskeytown%E2%80%93Shasta%E2%80%93Trinity_National_Recreation_Area" title="Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area">Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Smith_River_National_Recreation_Area" title="Smith River National Recreation Area">Smith River National Recreation Area</a>. The NPS also administers the <a href="/wiki/Manzanar" title="Manzanar">Manzanar</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Site_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Historic Site (United States)">National Historic Site</a> in <a href="/wiki/Inyo_County,_California" title="Inyo County, California">Inyo County</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter_World_War_II_Home_Front_National_Historical_Park" title="Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park">Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Tule_Lake_National_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Tule Lake National Monument">Tule Lake National Monument</a> outside of <a href="/wiki/Tulelake,_California" title="Tulelake, California">Tulelake</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2008</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 28em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tilden_Regional_Park" title="Tilden Regional Park">Tilden Regional Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alum_Rock_Park" title="Alum Rock Park">Alum Rock Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angel_Island_(California)" title="Angel Island (California)">Angel Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bidwell_Park" title="Bidwell Park">Bidwell Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Basin_Redwoods_State_Park" title="Big Basin Redwoods State Park">Big Basin Redwoods State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butano_State_Park" title="Butano State Park">Butano State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calaveras_Big_Trees_State_Park" title="Calaveras Big Trees State Park">Calaveras Big Trees State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_Rock_State_Park_(California)" title="Castle Rock State Park (California)">Castle Rock State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caswell_Memorial_State_Park_(California)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caswell Memorial State Park (California) (page does not exist)">Caswell Memorial State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Bay_Regional_Park_District" title="East Bay Regional Park District">East Bay Regional Park District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farallon_Islands" title="Farallon Islands">Farallon Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park" title="Golden Gate Park">Golden Gate Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_W._Coe_State_Park" title="Henry W. Coe State Park">Henry W. Coe State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Redwoods_State_Park" title="Humboldt Redwoods State Park">Humboldt Redwoods State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedediah_Smith_Redwoods_State_Park" title="Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park">Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Lake Tahoe Basin">Lake Tahoe Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marble_Mountains_(Siskiyou_County)" title="Marble Mountains (Siskiyou County)">Marble Mountain Wilderness</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mill_Creek_State_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mill Creek State Park (page does not exist)">Mill Creek State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tamalpais_State_Park" title="Mount Tamalpais State Park">Mount Tamalpais State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suisun_Marsh" title="Suisun Marsh">Suisun Marsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_River" title="Sacramento River">Sacramento River</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talowa_Dunes_State_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Talowa Dunes State Park (page does not exist)">Talowa Dunes State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtle_Bay_Exploration_Park" title="Turtle Bay Exploration Park">Turtle Bay Exploration Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McArthur%E2%80%93Burney_Falls_Memorial_State_Park" title="McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park">McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilder_Ranch_State_Park" title="Wilder Ranch State Park">Wilder Ranch State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park" title="Sequoia National Park">Sequoia National Park</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Educational_institutions">Educational institutions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Educational institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Northern California hosts a number of world-renowned universities including <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>. Top-tier public graduate schools include <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California, Berkeley School of Law">Boalt Hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Hastings_College_of_the_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California, Hastings College of the Law">Hastings</a> law schools and <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Francisco" title="University of California, San Francisco">UC San Francisco</a> (a top-ranked medical school) and <a href="/wiki/UC_Davis_School_of_Veterinary_Medicine" title="UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine">UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine</a>, the largest veterinary school in the United States. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public">Public</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Public"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Six <a href="/wiki/University_of_California" title="University of California">University of California</a> campuses:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/UC_Berkeley" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Davis">UC Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_Hastings" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Hastings">UC Hastings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_Merced" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Merced">UC Merced</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_San_Francisco" class="mw-redirect" title="UC San Francisco">UC San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_Santa_Cruz" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Santa Cruz">UC Santa Cruz</a></li></ul></dd></dl> </div> <ul><li>Eleven <a href="/wiki/California_State_University" title="California State University">California State University</a> campuses:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/California_Maritime_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="California Maritime Academy">California Maritime Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Chico" title="California State University, Chico">Chico State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_East_Bay" title="California State University, East Bay">CSU East Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Monterey_Bay" title="California State University, Monterey Bay">CSU Monterey Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Fresno" title="California State University, Fresno">Fresno State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Humboldt State University">Cal Poly Humboldt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Sacramento" title="California State University, Sacramento">Sacramento State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_State_University" title="San Francisco State University">San Francisco State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_State_University" title="San Jose State University">San Jose State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonoma_State_University" title="Sonoma State University">Sonoma State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Stanislaus" title="California State University, Stanislaus">Stanislaus State</a></li></ul></dd></dl> </div> <ul><li>A large number of local <a href="/wiki/California_Community_Colleges_System" class="mw-redirect" title="California Community Colleges System">community colleges</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Private">Private</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Private"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>(Partial list)</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Art_University" title="Academy of Art University">Academy of Art University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_College_of_the_Arts" title="California College of the Arts">California College of the Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_University_of_California" title="Dominican University of California">Dominican University of California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresno_Pacific_University" title="Fresno Pacific University">Fresno Pacific University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_University" title="Golden Gate University">Golden Gate University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessup_University" title="Jessup University">Jessup University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menlo_College" title="Menlo College">Menlo College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Polytechnic_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwestern Polytechnic University">Northwestern Polytechnic University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Namur_University" title="Notre Dame de Namur University">Notre Dame de Namur University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Union_College" title="Pacific Union College">Pacific Union College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Merritt_University" title="Samuel Merritt University">Samuel Merritt University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_University" title="Santa Clara University">Santa Clara University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Mary%27s_College_of_California" title="Saint Mary's College of California">Saint Mary's College of California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simpson_University" title="Simpson University">Simpson University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touro_University_California" title="Touro University California">Touro University California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Pacific_(United_States)" title="University of the Pacific (United States)">University of the Pacific</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Research">Research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>(Partial list)</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Institute_of_Mathematics" title="American Institute of Mathematics">American Institute of Mathematics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodega_Marine_Reserve" title="Bodega Marine Reserve">Bodega Marine Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkins_Marine_Station" title="Hopkins Marine Station">Hopkins Marine Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Genome_Institute" title="Joint Genome Institute">Joint Genome Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lick_Observatory" title="Lick Observatory">Lick Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Marine_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Marine Laboratory">Long Marine Laboratory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical Sciences Research Institute">Mathematical Sciences Research Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium_Research_Institute" title="Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute">Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Ames_Research_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="NASA Ames Research Center">NASA Ames Research Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Valley_Radio_Observatory" title="Owens Valley Radio Observatory">Owens Valley Radio Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Institute" title="Pacific Institute">Pacific Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_Reyes_Bird_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Point Reyes Bird Observatory">Point Reyes Bird Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Mountain_Peak" title="White Mountain Peak">White Mountain Research Station</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Counties">Counties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alameda_County,_California" title="Alameda County, California">Alameda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpine_County,_California" title="Alpine County, California">Alpine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amador_County,_California" title="Amador County, California">Amador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butte_County,_California" title="Butte County, California">Butte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calaveras_County,_California" title="Calaveras County, California">Calaveras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colusa_County,_California" title="Colusa County, California">Colusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contra_Costa_County,_California" title="Contra Costa County, California">Contra Costa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Norte_County,_California" title="Del Norte County, California">Del Norte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Dorado_County,_California" title="El Dorado County, California">El Dorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresno_County,_California" title="Fresno County, California">Fresno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_County,_California" title="Glenn County, California">Glenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California" title="Humboldt County, California">Humboldt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inyo_County,_California" title="Inyo County, California">Inyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kings_County,_California" title="Kings County, California">Kings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_County,_California" title="Lake County, California">Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lassen_County,_California" title="Lassen County, California">Lassen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madera_County,_California" title="Madera County, California">Madera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marin_County,_California" title="Marin County, California">Marin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariposa_County,_California" title="Mariposa County, California">Mariposa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendocino_County,_California" title="Mendocino County, California">Mendocino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merced_County,_California" title="Merced County, California">Merced</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modoc_County,_California" title="Modoc County, California">Modoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mono_County,_California" title="Mono County, California">Mono</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey_County,_California" title="Monterey County, California">Monterey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napa_County,_California" title="Napa County, California">Napa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_County,_California" title="Nevada County, California">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Placer_County,_California" title="Placer County, California">Placer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plumas_County,_California" title="Plumas County, California">Plumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_County,_California" title="Sacramento County, California">Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Benito_County,_California" title="San Benito County, California">San Benito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_County,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco County, California">San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_County,_California" title="San Joaquin County, California">San Joaquin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Mateo_County,_California" title="San Mateo County, California">San Mateo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County,_California" title="Santa Clara County, California">Santa Clara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_County,_California" title="Santa Cruz County, California">Santa Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shasta_County,_California" title="Shasta County, California">Shasta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_County,_California" title="Sierra County, California">Sierra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siskiyou_County,_California" title="Siskiyou County, California">Siskiyou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solano_County,_California" title="Solano County, California">Solano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County,_California" title="Sonoma County, California">Sonoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanislaus_County,_California" title="Stanislaus County, California">Stanislaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutter_County,_California" title="Sutter County, California">Sutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehama_County,_California" title="Tehama County, California">Tehama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinity_County,_California" title="Trinity County, California">Trinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulare_County,_California" title="Tulare County, California">Tulare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuolumne_County,_California" title="Tuolumne County, California">Tuolumne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yolo_County,_California" title="Yolo County, California">Yolo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuba_County,_California" title="Yuba County, California">Yuba</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regions">Regions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following regions are entirely or partly within northern California: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_Sur" title="Big Sur">Big Sur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_California" title="Central California">Central California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Coast_of_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Coast of California">Central Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)" title="Central Valley (California)">Central Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_California" title="Coastal California">Coastal California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">East Bay (SF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_California" title="Eastern California">Eastern California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald_Triangle" title="Emerald Triangle">Emerald Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Country" title="Gold Country">Gold Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_metropolitan_area" title="Sacramento metropolitan area">Greater Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klamath_Basin" title="Klamath Basin">Klamath Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe" title="Lake Tahoe">Lake Tahoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lassen_Peak" title="Lassen Peak">Lassen Peak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Coast" title="Lost Coast">Lost Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Fresno" title="Metropolitan Fresno">Metropolitan Fresno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta" title="Mount Shasta">Mount Shasta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" title="North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">North Bay (SF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Coast_(California)" title="North Coast (California)">North Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_River_(California)" title="Russian River (California)">Russian River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Valley" title="Sacramento Valley">Sacramento Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula" title="San Francisco Peninsula">San Francisco Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley" title="Santa Clara Valley">Santa Clara Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shasta_Cascade" title="Shasta Cascade">Shasta Cascade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sierra Nevada (U.S.)">Sierra Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">South Bay (SF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecom_Valley" title="Telecom Valley">Telecom Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tri-Valley" title="Tri-Valley">Tri-Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinity_Alps" title="Trinity Alps">Trinity Alps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wine_Country_(California)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wine Country (California)">Wine Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" title="Yosemite National Park">Yosemite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuba%E2%80%93Sutter_area" title="Yuba–Sutter area">Yuba–Sutter area</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50,000_inhabitants"><span id="Cities_and_towns_with_more_than_50.2C000_inhabitants"></span>Cities and towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Cities and towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerycaption">Largest cities (<a href="/wiki/City_proper" title="City proper">city proper</a>) in northern California</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1 – San Jose"><img alt="1 – San Jose" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/270px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/405px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/540px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1 – <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 172px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="2 – San Francisco"><img alt="2 – San Francisco" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg/255px-SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg/383px-SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg/511px-SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2672" data-file-height="1885" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">2 – <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 308px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 306px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fresno_skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="3 – Fresno"><img alt="3 – Fresno" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Fresno_skyline.jpg/459px-Fresno_skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="306" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Fresno_skyline.jpg/688px-Fresno_skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Fresno_skyline.jpg/917px-Fresno_skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2529" data-file-height="993" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">3 – <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 149.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 147.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="4 – Sacramento"><img alt="4 – Sacramento" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg/221px-Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="148" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg/332px-Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg/442px-Tower_Bridge_Sacramento_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2409" data-file-height="1962" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">4 – <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 358px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 356px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oakland_California_skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="5 – Oakland"><img alt="5 – Oakland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Oakland_California_skyline.jpg/534px-Oakland_California_skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="356" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Oakland_California_skyline.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="270" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">5 – <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 90.666666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 88.666666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton,_CA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="6 – Stockton"><img alt="6 – Stockton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg/133px-Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg" decoding="async" width="89" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg/199px-Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg/265px-Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton%2C_CA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2190" data-file-height="2969" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">6 – <a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mission-Peak-2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="7 – Fremont"><img alt="7 – Fremont" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Mission-Peak-2006.jpg/270px-Mission-Peak-2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Mission-Peak-2006.jpg/405px-Mission-Peak-2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Mission-Peak-2006.jpg/540px-Mission-Peak-2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">7 – <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Modesto_Arch.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="8 – Modesto"><img alt="8 – Modesto" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Modesto_Arch.JPG/270px-Modesto_Arch.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Modesto_Arch.JPG/405px-Modesto_Arch.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Modesto_Arch.JPG/540px-Modesto_Arch.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">8 – <a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SR_vineyard.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="9 – Santa Rosa"><img alt="9 – Santa Rosa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/SR_vineyard.jpg/240px-SR_vineyard.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/SR_vineyard.jpg/360px-SR_vineyard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/SR_vineyard.jpg/480px-SR_vineyard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">9 – <a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California" title="Santa Rosa, California">Santa Rosa</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="10 – Elk Grove"><img alt="10 – Elk Grove" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg/240px-Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg/360px-Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg/480px-Laguna_Springs_Dr_and_Laguna_Blvd.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">10 – <a href="/wiki/Elk_Grove,_California" title="Elk Grove, California">Elk Grove</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_Street,_Salinas.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="11 – Salinas"><img alt="11 – Salinas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg/240px-Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg/360px-Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg/480px-Main_Street%2C_Salinas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">11 – <a href="/wiki/Salinas,_California" title="Salinas, California">Salinas</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="12 – Hayward"><img alt="12 – Hayward" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg/240px-Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg/360px-Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg/480px-Hayward_City_Hall_number_3_front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">12 – <a href="/wiki/Hayward,_California" title="Hayward, California">Hayward</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 213.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="13 – Sunnyvale"><img alt="13 – Sunnyvale" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg/320px-Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg/480px-Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg/640px-Murphystreetsunnyvale.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="563" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">13 – <a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 82px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="14 – Roseville"><img alt="14 – Roseville" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg/120px-Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg/180px-Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg/240px-Roseville_-_City_Civic_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="3072" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">14 – <a href="/wiki/Roseville,_California" title="Roseville, California">Roseville</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 183.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="15 – Visalia"><img alt="15 – Visalia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg/275px-Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="184" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg/412px-Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg/549px-Visalia_Transit_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="710" data-file-height="466" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">15 – <a href="/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California">Visalia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 170.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 168.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="16 – Santa Clara"><img alt="16 – Santa Clara" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg/253px-Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg" decoding="async" width="169" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg/380px-Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg/507px-Santaclaraconventioncenter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2807" data-file-height="1995" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">16 – <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="17 – Vallejo"><img alt="17 – Vallejo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg/240px-DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg/360px-DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg/480px-DK_From_Parking_Lot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">17 – <a href="/wiki/Vallejo,_California" title="Vallejo, California">Vallejo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Todos_Santos_Plaza_(Concord,_California)_Dec_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="18 – Concord"><img alt="18 – Concord" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg/271px-Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="181" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg/407px-Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg/542px-Todos_Santos_Plaza_%28Concord%2C_California%29_Dec_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3216" data-file-height="2136" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">18 – <a href="/wiki/Concord,_California" title="Concord, California">Concord</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="19 – Berkeley"><img alt="19 – Berkeley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg/270px-Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg/405px-Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg/541px-Berkeley-downtown-Bay-bridge-SF-in-back-from-Lab.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2032" data-file-height="1354" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">19 – <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 241.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 239.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="20 – Clovis"><img alt="20 – Clovis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG/359px-Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG" decoding="async" width="240" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG/538px-Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG/718px-Pollasky_Ave._Clovis.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1273" data-file-height="639" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">20 – <a href="/wiki/Clovis,_California" title="Clovis, California">Clovis</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Fairfield,_California.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="21 – Fairfield"><img alt="21 – Fairfield" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg/240px-Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg/360px-Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg/480px-Aerial_view_of_Fairfield%2C_California.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">21 – <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_California" title="Fairfield, California">Fairfield</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 147.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 145.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Point_Richmond,_Richmond,_California.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="22 – Richmond"><img alt="22 – Richmond" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg/218px-Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg" decoding="async" width="146" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg/327px-Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg/436px-Point_Richmond%2C_Richmond%2C_California.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="660" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">22 – <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 164.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 162.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_(Antioch,_CA).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="23 – Antioch"><img alt="23 – Antioch" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG/244px-Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="163" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG/366px-Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG/488px-Shannon-Williamson_Ranch_%28Antioch%2C_CA%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1193" data-file-height="880" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">23 – <a href="/wiki/Antioch,_California" title="Antioch, California">Antioch</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="24 – San Mateo"><img alt="24 – San Mateo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg/240px-MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg/360px-MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg/480px-MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">24 – <a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 179.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 177.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Daly_City.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="25 – Daly City"><img alt="25 – Daly 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Aerial_view_of_Vacaville%2C_California.jpg/360px-Aerial_view_of_Vacaville%2C_California.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Aerial_view_of_Vacaville%2C_California.jpg/480px-Aerial_view_of_Vacaville%2C_California.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">26 – <a href="/wiki/Vacaville,_California" title="Vacaville, California">Vacaville</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="27 – Chico"><img alt="27 – Chico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg/240px-Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg/360px-Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg/480px-Bidwell_Park_Chico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">27 – <a href="/wiki/Chico,_California" title="Chico, California">Chico</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 82px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sundialbridge2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="28 – Redding"><img alt="28 – Redding" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Sundialbridge2.jpg/120px-Sundialbridge2.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Sundialbridge2.jpg/180px-Sundialbridge2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Sundialbridge2.jpg/240px-Sundialbridge2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1731" data-file-height="2598" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">28 – <a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 168.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 166.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="29 – Tracy"><img alt="29 – Tracy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg/250px-11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="167" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg/375px-11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg/500px-11th_and_Central_Tracy_California_14-May-2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="648" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">29 – <a href="/wiki/Tracy,_California" title="Tracy, California">Tracy</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 168.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 166.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="30 – San Leandro"><img alt="30 – San Leandro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG/250px-San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG" decoding="async" width="167" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG/375px-San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG/500px-San_Leandro_Marina_07830.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2433" data-file-height="1753" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">30 – <a href="/wiki/San_Leandro,_California" title="San Leandro, California">San Leandro</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="32 – Citrus Heights"><img alt="32 – Citrus Heights" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg/270px-Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg/405px-Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg/540px-Citrus_Heights_-_Police.jpg 2x" 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class="gallerybox" style="width: 215.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 213.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SanRamonPanorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="34 – San Ramon"><img alt="34 – San Ramon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/SanRamonPanorama.jpg/320px-SanRamonPanorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/SanRamonPanorama.jpg/480px-SanRamonPanorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/SanRamonPanorama.jpg/640px-SanRamonPanorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1705" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">34 – <a href="/wiki/San_Ramon,_California" title="San Ramon, California">San Ramon</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 330px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 328px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="35 – Redwood City"><img alt="35 – Redwood City" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg/492px-Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="328" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg/738px-Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Redwoodcitypanorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="293" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">35 – <a href="/wiki/Redwood_City,_California" title="Redwood City, California">Redwood City</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MantecaCA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="36 – Manteca"><img alt="36 – Manteca" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/MantecaCA.jpg/240px-MantecaCA.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/MantecaCA.jpg/360px-MantecaCA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/MantecaCA.jpg/480px-MantecaCA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">36 – <a href="/wiki/Manteca,_California" title="Manteca, California">Manteca</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="37 – Mountain View"><img alt="37 – Mountain View" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg/240px-Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg/360px-Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg/480px-Mountainviewcentennialplaza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">37 – <a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_California" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 191.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 189.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lake_Folsom.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="38 – Folsom"><img alt="38 – Folsom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lake_Folsom.JPG/284px-Lake_Folsom.JPG" decoding="async" width="190" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lake_Folsom.JPG/425px-Lake_Folsom.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lake_Folsom.JPG/567px-Lake_Folsom.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1016" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">38 – <a href="/wiki/Folsom,_California" title="Folsom, California">Folsom</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 197.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 195.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Footbridge_to_Great_Mall_Main_station,_March_2018_(cropped).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="39 – Milpitas"><img alt="39 – Milpitas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Footbridge_to_Great_Mall_Main_station%2C_March_2018_%28cropped%29.JPG/293px-Footbridge_to_Great_Mall_Main_station%2C_March_2018_%28cropped%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="196" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Footbridge_to_Great_Mall_Main_station%2C_March_2018_%28cropped%29.JPG/439px-Footbridge_to_Great_Mall_Main_station%2C_March_2018_%28cropped%29.JPG 1.5x, 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/MCB-pleasanton-ca.jpg/526px-MCB-pleasanton-ca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2430" data-file-height="1664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">40 – <a href="/wiki/Pleasanton,_California" title="Pleasanton, California">Pleasanton</a></div> </li> </ul> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="150">City </th> <th scope="col" width="110">Population (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Alameda,_California" title="Alameda, California">Alameda</a> </th> <td>78,280 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Antioch,_California" title="Antioch, California">Antioch</a> </th> <td>115,291 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a> </th> <td>124,321 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Brentwood,_California" title="Brentwood, California">Brentwood</a> </th> <td>64,292 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Chico,_California" title="Chico, California">Chico</a> </th> <td>101,475 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Citrus_Heights,_California" title="Citrus Heights, California">Citrus Heights</a> </th> <td>87,583 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Clovis,_California" title="Clovis, California">Clovis</a> </th> <td>120,124 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Concord,_California" title="Concord, California">Concord</a> </th> <td>125,410 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Cupertino,_California" title="Cupertino, California">Cupertino</a> </th> <td>60,381 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Daly_City,_California" title="Daly City, California">Daly City</a> </th> <td>104,901 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Davis,_California" title="Davis, California">Davis</a> </th> <td>66,850 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Dublin,_California" title="Dublin, California">Dublin</a> </th> <td>72,589 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Elk_Grove,_California" title="Elk Grove, California">Elk Grove</a> </th> <td>176,124 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_California" title="Fairfield, California">Fairfield</a> </th> <td>119,881 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Folsom,_California" title="Folsom, California">Folsom</a> </th> <td>80,454 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a> </th> <td>542,107 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a> </th> <td>230,504 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a> </th> <td>59,520 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Hanford,_California" title="Hanford, California">Hanford</a> </th> <td>57,990 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Hayward,_California" title="Hayward, California">Hayward</a> </th> <td>162,954 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Livermore,_California" title="Livermore, California">Livermore</a> </th> <td>87,955 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Lodi,_California" title="Lodi, California">Lodi</a> </th> <td>66,348 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Madera,_California" title="Madera, California">Madera</a> </th> <td>66,224 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Manteca,_California" title="Manteca, California">Manteca</a> </th> <td>83,498 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Merced,_California" title="Merced, California">Merced</a> </th> <td>86,333 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Milpitas,_California" title="Milpitas, California">Milpitas</a> </th> <td>80,273 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto</a> </th> <td>218,464 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_California" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View</a> </th> <td>82,376 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Napa,_California" title="Napa, California">Napa</a> </th> <td>79,246 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Novato,_California" title="Novato, California">Novato</a> </th> <td>53,225 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a> </th> <td>440,646 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a> </th> <td>68,572 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Petaluma,_California" title="Petaluma, California">Petaluma</a> </th> <td>59,776 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Pittsburg,_California" title="Pittsburg, California">Pittsburg</a> </th> <td>76,416 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Pleasanton,_California" title="Pleasanton, California">Pleasanton</a> </th> <td>79,871 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Porterville,_California" title="Porterville, California">Porterville</a> </th> <td>62,623 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Rancho_Cordova,_California" title="Rancho Cordova, California">Rancho Cordova</a> </th> <td>79,332 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a> </th> <td>93,611 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Redwood_City,_California" title="Redwood City, California">Redwood City</a> </th> <td>84,292 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond</a> </th> <td>116,448 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Rocklin,_California" title="Rocklin, California">Rocklin</a> </th> <td>71,601 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Roseville,_California" title="Roseville, California">Roseville</a> </th> <td>147,773 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a> </th> <td>524,943 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Salinas,_California" title="Salinas, California">Salinas</a> </th> <td>163,542 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco</a> </th> <td>873,965 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> </th> <td>1,013,240 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Leandro,_California" title="San Leandro, California">San Leandro</a> </th> <td>91,008 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo</a> </th> <td>105,661 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Rafael,_California" title="San Rafael, California">San Rafael</a> </th> <td>61,271 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Ramon,_California" title="San Ramon, California">San Ramon</a> </th> <td>84,605 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a> </th> <td>127,647 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California" title="Santa Cruz, California">Santa Cruz</a> </th> <td>62,956 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California" title="Santa Rosa, California">Santa Rosa</a> </th> <td>178,127 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/South_San_Francisco,_California" title="South San Francisco, California">South San Francisco</a> </th> <td>66,105 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a> </th> <td>320,804 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a> </th> <td>155,805 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Tracy,_California" title="Tracy, California">Tracy</a> </th> <td>93,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Tulare,_California" title="Tulare, California">Tulare</a> </th> <td>68,875 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Turlock,_California" title="Turlock, California">Turlock</a> </th> <td>72,740 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Union_City,_California" title="Union City, California">Union City</a> </th> <td>70,143 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Vacaville,_California" title="Vacaville, California">Vacaville</a> </th> <td>102,386 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Vallejo,_California" title="Vallejo, California">Vallejo</a> </th> <td>126,090 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California">Visalia</a> </th> <td>141,384 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Walnut_Creek,_California" title="Walnut Creek, California">Walnut Creek</a> </th> <td>70,127 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Watsonville,_California" title="Watsonville, California">Watsonville</a> </th> <td>52,590 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/West_Sacramento,_California" title="West Sacramento, California">West Sacramento</a> </th> <td>53,915 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Woodland,_California" title="Woodland, California">Woodland</a> </th> <td>61,032 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Yuba_City,_California" title="Yuba City, California">Yuba City</a> </th> <td>70,117 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Metropolitan_areas">Metropolitan areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Metropolitan areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Northern California is home to three of the state's four <a href="/wiki/Combined_statistical_areas" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined statistical areas">extended metropolitan areas</a>, which are home to over three-fourths of the region's population as of the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">2010 United States Census</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Metropolitan region </th> <th>Population </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> </td> <td align="right">7,468,390 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Sacramento">Greater Sacramento</a> </td> <td align="right">2,461,780 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Fresno" title="Metropolitan Fresno">Metropolitan Fresno</a> </td> <td align="right">1,081,315 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_business_districts">Major business districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Major business districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following are major central business districts: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Financial_District,_San_Francisco" title="Financial District, San Francisco">San Francisco Financial District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Oakland" title="Downtown Oakland">Downtown Oakland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Sacramento" title="Downtown Sacramento">Downtown Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose" title="Downtown San Jose">Downtown San Jose</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>See also articles:</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_the_Sacramento_metropolitan_area" title="Transportation in the Sacramento metropolitan area">Transportation in the Sacramento metropolitan area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area">Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area</a></li></ul> <p><i>See also categories:</i> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col div-col-small" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Alameda_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Alameda County, California">Transportation in Alameda County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Alpine_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Alpine County, California">Transportation in Alpine County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Amador_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Amador County, California">Transportation in Amador County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Butte_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Butte County, California">Transportation in Butte County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Calaveras_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Calaveras County, California">Transportation in Calaveras County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Colusa_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Colusa County, California">Transportation in Colusa County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Contra_Costa_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Contra Costa County, California">Transportation in Contra Costa County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Del_Norte_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Del Norte County, California">Transportation in Del Norte County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_El_Dorado_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in El Dorado County, California">Transportation in El Dorado County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Fresno_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Fresno County, California">Transportation in Fresno County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Glenn_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Glenn County, California">Transportation in Glenn County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Humboldt_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Humboldt County, California">Transportation in Humboldt County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Inyo_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Inyo County, California">Transportation in Inyo County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Kings_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Kings County, California">Transportation in Kings County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Lake_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Lake County, California">Transportation in Lake County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Lassen_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Lassen County, California">Transportation in Lassen County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Madera_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Madera County, California">Transportation in Madera County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Marin_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Marin County, California">Transportation in Marin County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Mariposa_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Mariposa County, California">Transportation in Mariposa County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Mendocino_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Mendocino County, California">Transportation in Mendocino County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Merced_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Merced County, California">Transportation in Merced County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Modoc_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Modoc County, California">Transportation in Modoc County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Mono_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Mono County, California">Transportation in Mono County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Monterey_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Monterey County, California">Transportation in Monterey County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Napa_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Napa County, California">Transportation in Napa County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Nevada_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Nevada County, California">Transportation in Nevada County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Oakland,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Oakland, California">Transportation in Oakland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Placer_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Placer County, California">Transportation in Placer County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Plumas_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Plumas County, California">Transportation in Plumas County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Sacramento,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Sacramento, California">Transportation in Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Sacramento_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Sacramento County, California">Transportation in Sacramento County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_San_Benito_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in San Benito County, California">Transportation in San Benito County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="Category:Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area">Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_San_Francisco" title="Category:Transportation in San Francisco">Transportation in San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_San_Joaquin_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in San Joaquin County, California">Transportation in San Joaquin County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_San_Mateo_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in San Mateo County, California">Transportation in San Mateo County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Santa_Clara_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Santa Clara County, California">Transportation in Santa Clara County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Santa_Cruz_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Santa Cruz County, California">Transportation in Santa Cruz County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Shasta_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Shasta County, California">Transportation in Shasta County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Sierra_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Sierra County, California">Transportation in Sierra County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Siskiyou_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Siskiyou County, California">Transportation in Siskiyou County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Solano_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Solano County, California">Transportation in Solano County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Sonoma_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Sonoma County, California">Transportation in Sonoma County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Stanislaus_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Stanislaus County, California">Transportation in Stanislaus County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Sutter_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Sutter County, California">Transportation in Sutter County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Tehama_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Tehama County, California">Transportation in Tehama County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Trinity_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Trinity County, California">Transportation in Trinity County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Tulare_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Tulare County, California">Transportation in Tulare County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Tuolumne_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Tuolumne County, California">Transportation in Tuolumne County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Yolo_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Yolo County, California">Transportation in Yolo County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transportation_in_Yuba_County,_California" title="Category:Transportation in Yuba County, California">Transportation in Yuba County</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Airports">Airports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Airports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_California" title="List of airports in California">List of airports in California</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg/200px-International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg/300px-International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg/400px-International_Terminal_of_San_Francisco_International_Airport2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3509" data-file-height="1799" /></a><figcaption>San Francisco International Airport (or SFO) is the largest and busiest airport in northern California, also ranking second in the state and tenth in the United States.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_(5863558111)_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg/200px-Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg/300px-Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg/400px-Airbus_A-300_UPS_takes_off_%285863558111%29_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3270" data-file-height="2566" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_International_Airport" title="San Jose International Airport">San Jose International Airport</a> is ranked as the best-run airport in the United States, by the <a href="/wiki/American_City_Business_Journals" title="American City Business Journals">ACBJ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>There are 11 airports in Northern California categorized as Primary Service Commercial airports by the FAA:<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Airport</th> <th>ID</th> <th>City</th> <th>Category</th> <th>2018 Enplanements </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Airport" title="San Francisco International Airport">San Francisco International Airport</a></td> <td>SFO</td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a></td> <td>Large Hub</td> <td>27,794,154 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_International_Airport" title="San Jose International Airport">San Jose International Airport</a></td> <td>SJC</td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></td> <td>Medium Hub</td> <td>7,037,144 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Oakland_International_Airport" title="Oakland International Airport">Oakland International Airport</a></td> <td>OAK</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a></td> <td>Medium Hub</td> <td>6,687,963 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_International_Airport" title="Sacramento International Airport">Sacramento International Airport</a></td> <td>SMF</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento">Sacramento</a></td> <td>Medium Hub</td> <td>5,907,901 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fresno_Yosemite_International_Airport" title="Fresno Yosemite International Airport">Fresno Yosemite International Airport</a></td> <td>FAT</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fresno" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno">Fresno</a></td> <td>Small Hub</td> <td>853,538 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz%E2%80%93Sonoma_County_Airport" title="Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport">Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport</a></td> <td>STS</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California" title="Santa Rosa, California">Santa Rosa</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>217,994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Monterey_Regional_Airport" title="Monterey Regional Airport">Monterey Regional Airport</a></td> <td>MRY</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Monterey,_California" title="Monterey, California">Monterey</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>188,046 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stockton_Metropolitan_Airport" title="Stockton Metropolitan Airport">Stockton Metropolitan Airport</a></td> <td>SCK</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>99,258 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arcata-Eureka_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcata-Eureka Airport">Arcata-Eureka Airport</a></td> <td>ACV</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arcata,_California" title="Arcata, California">Arcata</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>69,604 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Redding_Municipal_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Redding Municipal Airport">Redding Municipal Airport</a></td> <td>RDD</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>42,775 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mammoth_Yosemite_Airport" title="Mammoth Yosemite Airport">Mammoth Yosemite Airport</a></td> <td>MMH</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mammoth_Lakes,_California" title="Mammoth Lakes, California">Mammoth Lakes</a></td> <td>Non Hub</td> <td>23,522 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railroad">Railroad</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Railroad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station,_March_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg/200px-Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg/300px-Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg/400px-Upper_platform_at_19th_Street_Oakland_station%2C_March_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1330" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/19th_Street_Oakland_station" title="19th Street Oakland station">19th Street Oakland</a> BART station in downtown Oakland</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit" title="Bay Area Rapid Transit">Bay Area Rapid Transit</a> (BART) – commuter subway connecting most of the core Bay Area including <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caltrain" title="Caltrain">Caltrain</a> – commuter rail between San Francisco and <a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a> (south of San Jose)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muni_Metro" title="Muni Metro">Muni Metro</a> (San Francisco)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VTA_light_rail" title="VTA light rail">VTA light rail</a> (San Jose)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Altamont_Corridor_Express" title="Altamont Corridor Express">Altamont Corridor Express</a> (ACE) – commuter train connecting <a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a> and the Central Valley with San Jose and the Bay Area</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Regional_Transit_District" title="Sacramento Regional Transit District">Sacramento Regional Transit District</a> light rail</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a>: <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/California_Zephyr" title="California Zephyr">California Zephyr</a></i> – connects <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> to the Bay Area</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Corridor" title="Capitol Corridor">Capitol Corridor</a></i> – San Jose to <a href="/wiki/Auburn,_California" title="Auburn, California">Auburn</a> (eastern suburb of Sacramento)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coast_Starlight" title="Coast Starlight">Coast Starlight</a></i> – coastal train between <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> with northern California stops in San Jose, Oakland, and Sacramento</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_(Amtrak)" class="mw-redirect" title="San Joaquin (Amtrak)">San Joaquin</a></i> – Central Valley train linking <a href="/wiki/Bakersfield,_California" title="Bakersfield, California">Bakersfield</a> in the Central Valley to Sacramento and Oakland</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_transit_organizations">Major transit organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Major transit organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AC_Transit" title="AC Transit">AC Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcata_and_Mad_River_Transit_System" title="Arcata and Mad River Transit System">Arcata and Mad River Transit System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Connection" title="County Connection">County Connection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Dorado_Transit" title="El Dorado Transit">El Dorado Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eureka_Transit_Service" title="Eureka Transit Service">Eureka Transit Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_and_Suisun_Transit" title="Fairfield and Suisun Transit">Fairfield and Suisun Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresno_Area_Express" title="Fresno Area Express">Fresno Area Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Transit" title="Golden Gate Transit">Golden Gate Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Transit" title="Lake Transit">Lake Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendocino_Transit_Authority" title="Mendocino Transit Authority">Mendocino Transit Authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey-Salinas_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Monterey-Salinas Transit">Monterey-Salinas Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porterville_City_Operated_Local_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Porterville City Operated Local Transit">Porterville City Operated Local Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redwood_Transit_System" title="Redwood Transit System">Redwood Transit System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SamTrans" title="SamTrans">SamTrans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Benito_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="San Benito Express">San Benito Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Municipal_Railway" title="San Francisco Municipal Railway">SF MUNI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Regional_Transit_District" title="San Joaquin Regional Transit District">San Joaquin Regional Transit District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley_Transportation_Authority" title="Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority">Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority</a> (VTA)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Metro" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Cruz Metro">Santa Cruz Metro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solano_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="Solano Express">Solano Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SolTrans" title="SolTrans">SolTrans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County_Transit" title="Sonoma County Transit">Sonoma County Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tri_Delta_Transit" title="Tri Delta Transit">Tri Delta Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visalia_Transit" title="Visalia Transit">Visalia Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VINE_(Napa_County)" class="mw-redirect" title="VINE (Napa County)">VINE (Napa County)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_transit_ferries">Major transit ferries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Major transit ferries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg/250px-San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg/375px-San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg/500px-San_Francisco_Ferry_Building.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5513" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The historic <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building" title="San Francisco Ferry Building">San Francisco Ferry Building</a> is the busiest ferry terminal on the West Coast and connects Downtown San Francisco to various parts of the Bay Area.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Ferry" title="San Francisco Bay Ferry">San Francisco Bay Ferry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Ferry" title="Golden Gate Ferry">Golden Gate Ferry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_%26_Gold_Fleet" title="Blue & Gold Fleet">Blue & Gold Fleet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angel_Island_%E2%80%93_Tiburon_Ferry" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel Island – Tiburon Ferry">Angel Island – Tiburon Ferry</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Freeways">Freeways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Freeways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable selfref">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:San_Francisco_Bay_Area_freeways" title="Category:San Francisco Bay Area freeways">Category:San Francisco Bay Area freeways</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interstate_highways">Interstate highways</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Interstate highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-80_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/I-80_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-80_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/I-80_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-80_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/I-80_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-80_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_80_in_California" title="Interstate 80 in California">Interstate 80</a> (Eastshore Freeway/Lincoln Highway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-280_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/I-280_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-280_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/I-280_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-280_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/I-280_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-280_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_280_(California)" title="Interstate 280 (California)">Interstate 280</a> (Southern Embarcadero Freeway/Southern Freeway/Junipero Serra Freeway/Sinclair Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-380_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/I-380_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-380_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/I-380_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-380_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/I-380_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-380_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_380_(California)" title="Interstate 380 (California)">Interstate 380</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-580_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/I-580_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-580_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/I-580_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-580_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/I-580_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-580_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_580_(California)" title="Interstate 580 (California)">Interstate 580</a> (Eastshore Freeway/MacArthur Freeway/Brown Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-680_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/I-680_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-680_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/I-680_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-680_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/I-680_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-680_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_680_(California)" title="Interstate 680 (California)">Interstate 680</a> (Joseph P. Sinclair Freeway/Donald D. Doyle Highway/Blue Star Memorial Highway/Luther E. Gibson Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-780_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/I-780_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-780_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/I-780_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-780_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/I-780_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-780_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_780" title="Interstate 780">Interstate 780</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-880_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/I-880_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-880_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/I-880_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-880_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/I-880_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-880_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_880_(California)" title="Interstate 880 (California)">Interstate 880</a> (Nimitz Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-980_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/I-980_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-980_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/I-980_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-980_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/I-980_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-980_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_980" title="Interstate 980">Interstate 980</a> (Grove-Shafter Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-238_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/I-238_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-238_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/I-238_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-238_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/I-238_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-238_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_238" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate 238">Interstate 238</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-5_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/I-5_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-5_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/I-5_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-5_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/I-5_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-5_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_5_in_California" title="Interstate 5 in California">Interstate 5</a> (Golden State Freeway/West Side Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-205_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/I-205_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-205_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/I-205_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-205_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/I-205_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-205_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_205_(California)" title="Interstate 205 (California)">Interstate 205</a> (Robert T. Monagan Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-505_(CA).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/I-505_%28CA%29.svg/20px-I-505_%28CA%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/I-505_%28CA%29.svg/30px-I-505_%28CA%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/I-505_%28CA%29.svg/40px-I-505_%28CA%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_505" title="Interstate 505">Interstate 505</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Business_Loop_80.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Business_Loop_80.svg/20px-Business_Loop_80.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Business_Loop_80.svg/30px-Business_Loop_80.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Business_Loop_80.svg/40px-Business_Loop_80.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_80_Business_(Sacramento,_California)" title="Interstate 80 Business (Sacramento, California)">Interstate 80 Business</a> (Capital City Freeway)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="U.S._Routes">U.S. Routes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: U.S. Routes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GoldenGateBridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GoldenGateBridge.jpg/220px-GoldenGateBridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GoldenGateBridge.jpg/330px-GoldenGateBridge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GoldenGateBridge.jpg/440px-GoldenGateBridge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1142" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge" title="Golden Gate Bridge">Golden Gate Bridge</a> is one of northern California's most well-known landmarks and one of the most famous bridges in the world.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_6_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_6_in_California" title="U.S. Route 6 in California">U.S. Route 6</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_50_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_50_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_50_in_California" title="U.S. Route 50 in California">U.S. Route 50</a> (El Dorado Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_101_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_101_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_101_in_California" title="U.S. Route 101 in California">U.S. Route 101</a> (South Valley Freeway/Bayshore Freeway/James Lick Freeway/Central Freeway/Redwood Highway/Michael J. Burns Freeway/Redwood Highway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_395_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_395_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="385" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_395_in_California" title="U.S. Route 395 in California">U.S. Route 395</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_97_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_97_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_97_in_California" title="U.S. Route 97 in California">U.S. Route 97</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_199_(1961_cutout).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg/20px-US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg/30px-US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg/40px-US_199_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_199" title="U.S. Route 199">U.S. Route 199</a></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg/250px-I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg/375px-I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg/500px-I-80_Eastshore_Fwy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption>I-80 and I-580 in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a> in the Bay Area</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SR_120_Yosemite.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/SR_120_Yosemite.jpg/250px-SR_120_Yosemite.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/SR_120_Yosemite.jpg/375px-SR_120_Yosemite.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/SR_120_Yosemite.jpg/500px-SR_120_Yosemite.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>State Route 120 is one of the many highways that traverse the isolated areas of inner northern California.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Principal_state_highways">Principal state highways</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Principal state highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/California_1.svg/20px-California_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/California_1.svg/30px-California_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/California_1.svg/40px-California_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_1" title="California State Route 1">State Route 1</a> (Pacific Coast Highway/Cabrillo Highway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_3.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_3.svg/20px-California_3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_3.svg/30px-California_3.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_3.svg/40px-California_3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_3" title="California State Route 3">State Route 3</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_4.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/California_4.svg/20px-California_4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/California_4.svg/30px-California_4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/California_4.svg/40px-California_4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_4" title="California State Route 4">State Route 4</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_9.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/California_9.svg/20px-California_9.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/California_9.svg/30px-California_9.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/California_9.svg/40px-California_9.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_9" title="California State Route 9">State Route 9</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_12.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_12.svg/20px-California_12.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_12.svg/30px-California_12.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_12.svg/40px-California_12.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_12" title="California State Route 12">State Route 12</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_13.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/California_13.svg/20px-California_13.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/California_13.svg/30px-California_13.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/California_13.svg/40px-California_13.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_13" title="California State Route 13">State Route 13</a> (Ashby Avenue/Tunnel Road/Warren Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_16.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/California_16.svg/20px-California_16.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/California_16.svg/30px-California_16.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/California_16.svg/40px-California_16.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_16" title="California State Route 16">State Route 16</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_17.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/California_17.svg/20px-California_17.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/California_17.svg/30px-California_17.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/California_17.svg/40px-California_17.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_17" title="California State Route 17">State Route 17</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_20.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/California_20.svg/20px-California_20.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/California_20.svg/30px-California_20.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/California_20.svg/40px-California_20.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_20" title="California State Route 20">State Route 20</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_24.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/California_24.svg/20px-California_24.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/California_24.svg/30px-California_24.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/California_24.svg/40px-California_24.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_24" title="California State Route 24">State Route 24</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_25.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/California_25.svg/20px-California_25.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/California_25.svg/30px-California_25.svg.png 1.5x, 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/California_29.svg/20px-California_29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/California_29.svg/30px-California_29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/California_29.svg/40px-California_29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_29" title="California State Route 29">State Route 29</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_32.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/California_32.svg/20px-California_32.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/California_32.svg/30px-California_32.svg.png 1.5x, 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/California_35.svg/20px-California_35.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/California_35.svg/30px-California_35.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/California_35.svg/40px-California_35.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_35" title="California State Route 35">State Route 35</a> (Skyline Boulevard)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_36.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/California_36.svg/20px-California_36.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/California_36.svg/30px-California_36.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/California_36.svg/40px-California_36.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_36" title="California State Route 36">State Route 36</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_37.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/California_37.svg/20px-California_37.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/California_37.svg/30px-California_37.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/California_37.svg/40px-California_37.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_37" title="California State Route 37">State Route 37</a> (Sears Point Tollway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_41.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/California_41.svg/20px-California_41.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/California_41.svg/30px-California_41.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/California_41.svg/40px-California_41.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_41" title="California State Route 41">State Route 41</a> (E.G. Lewis Highway, Yosemite Freeway, Southern Yosemite Highway, Wawona Road)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_43.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/California_43.svg/20px-California_43.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/California_43.svg/30px-California_43.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/California_43.svg/40px-California_43.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_43" title="California State Route 43">State Route 43</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_44.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/California_44.svg/20px-California_44.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/California_44.svg/30px-California_44.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/California_44.svg/40px-California_44.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_44" title="California State Route 44">State Route 44</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_49.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/California_49.svg/20px-California_49.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/California_49.svg/30px-California_49.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/California_49.svg/40px-California_49.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_49" title="California State Route 49">State Route 49</a> (Golden Chain Highway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_59.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/California_59.svg/20px-California_59.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/California_59.svg/30px-California_59.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/California_59.svg/40px-California_59.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_59" title="California State Route 59">State Route 59</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_61.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/California_61.svg/20px-California_61.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/California_61.svg/30px-California_61.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/California_61.svg/40px-California_61.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span>/<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_112.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_112.svg/20px-California_112.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_112.svg/30px-California_112.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_112.svg/40px-California_112.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span>/<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_260.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/California_260.svg/20px-California_260.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/California_260.svg/30px-California_260.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/California_260.svg/40px-California_260.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_61" title="California State Route 61">State Route 61</a> (Webster Tube/Posey Tube/Doolittle Drive/Davis Street)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_63.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/California_63.svg/20px-California_63.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/California_63.svg/30px-California_63.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/California_63.svg/40px-California_63.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_63" title="California State Route 63">State Route 63</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_65.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/California_65.svg/20px-California_65.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/California_65.svg/30px-California_65.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/California_65.svg/40px-California_65.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_65" title="California State Route 65">State Route 65</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_68.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/California_68.svg/20px-California_68.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/California_68.svg/30px-California_68.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/California_68.svg/40px-California_68.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_68" title="California State Route 68">State Route 68</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_70.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/California_70.svg/20px-California_70.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/California_70.svg/30px-California_70.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/California_70.svg/40px-California_70.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_70" title="California State Route 70">State Route 70</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_82.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_82.svg/20px-California_82.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_82.svg/30px-California_82.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_82.svg/40px-California_82.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_82" title="California State Route 82">State Route 82</a> (Monterey Highway/El Camino Real/Mission Street)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_84.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_84.svg/20px-California_84.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_84.svg/30px-California_84.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_84.svg/40px-California_84.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_84" title="California State Route 84">State Route 84</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_85.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/California_85.svg/20px-California_85.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/California_85.svg/30px-California_85.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/California_85.svg/40px-California_85.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_85" title="California State Route 85">State Route 85</a> (Stevens Creek Freeway/West Valley Freeway/Norman Y. Mineta Highway/CHP Officer Scott M. Greenly Memorial Freeway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_87.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/California_87.svg/20px-California_87.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/California_87.svg/30px-California_87.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/California_87.svg/40px-California_87.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_87" title="California State Route 87">State Route 87</a> (Guadalupe Parkway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_88.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/California_88.svg/20px-California_88.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/California_88.svg/30px-California_88.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/California_88.svg/40px-California_88.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_88" title="California State Route 88">State Route 88</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_89.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/California_89.svg/20px-California_89.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/California_89.svg/30px-California_89.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/California_89.svg/40px-California_89.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_89" title="California State Route 89">State Route 89</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_92.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/California_92.svg/20px-California_92.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/California_92.svg/30px-California_92.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/California_92.svg/40px-California_92.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_92" title="California State Route 92">State Route 92</a> (J. Arthur Younger Freeway/Jackson Street)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_96.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/California_96.svg/20px-California_96.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/California_96.svg/30px-California_96.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/California_96.svg/40px-California_96.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_96" title="California State Route 96">State Route 96</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_99.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/California_99.svg/20px-California_99.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" 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Route 104</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_108.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/California_108.svg/20px-California_108.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/California_108.svg/30px-California_108.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/California_108.svg/40px-California_108.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_108" title="California State Route 108">State Route 108</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_113.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/California_113.svg/20px-California_113.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" 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116">State Route 116</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_120.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/California_120.svg/20px-California_120.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/California_120.svg/30px-California_120.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/California_120.svg/40px-California_120.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_120" title="California State Route 120">State Route 120</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_121.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/California_121.svg/20px-California_121.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" 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128">State Route 128</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_130.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/California_130.svg/20px-California_130.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/California_130.svg/30px-California_130.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/California_130.svg/40px-California_130.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_130" title="California State Route 130">State Route 130</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_132.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/California_132.svg/20px-California_132.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/California_132.svg/30px-California_132.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/California_132.svg/40px-California_132.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_132" title="California State Route 132">State Route 132</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_137.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/California_137.svg/20px-California_137.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/California_137.svg/30px-California_137.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/California_137.svg/40px-California_137.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_137" title="California State Route 137">State Route 137</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_139.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_139.svg/20px-California_139.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_139.svg/30px-California_139.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/California_139.svg/40px-California_139.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_139" title="California State Route 139">State Route 139</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_140.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/California_140.svg/20px-California_140.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/California_140.svg/30px-California_140.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/California_140.svg/40px-California_140.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_140" title="California State Route 140">State Route 140</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_152.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/California_152.svg/20px-California_152.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/California_152.svg/30px-California_152.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/California_152.svg/40px-California_152.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_152" title="California State Route 152">State Route 152</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_156.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/California_156.svg/20px-California_156.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/California_156.svg/30px-California_156.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/California_156.svg/40px-California_156.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_156" title="California State Route 156">State Route 156</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_160.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/California_160.svg/20px-California_160.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/California_160.svg/30px-California_160.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/California_160.svg/40px-California_160.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_160" title="California State Route 160">State Route 160</a> (North Sacramento Freeway/River Road)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_162.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/California_162.svg/20px-California_162.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/California_162.svg/30px-California_162.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/California_162.svg/40px-California_162.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_162" title="California State Route 162">State Route 162</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_165.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_165.svg/20px-California_165.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_165.svg/30px-California_165.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/California_165.svg/40px-California_165.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_165" title="California State Route 165">State Route 165</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_168.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_168.svg/20px-California_168.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_168.svg/30px-California_168.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_168.svg/40px-California_168.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_168" title="California State Route 168">State Route 168</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_174.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/California_174.svg/20px-California_174.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/California_174.svg/30px-California_174.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/California_174.svg/40px-California_174.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_174" title="California State Route 174">State Route 174</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_180.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_180.svg/20px-California_180.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_180.svg/30px-California_180.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/California_180.svg/40px-California_180.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_180" title="California State Route 180">State Route 180</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_185.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/California_185.svg/20px-California_185.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/California_185.svg/30px-California_185.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/California_185.svg/40px-California_185.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span>/<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_77.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/California_77.svg/20px-California_77.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/California_77.svg/30px-California_77.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/California_77.svg/40px-California_77.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_185" title="California State Route 185">State Route 185</a> (International Boulevard/East 14th Street/Mission Boulevard)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_190.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/California_190.svg/20px-California_190.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/California_190.svg/30px-California_190.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/California_190.svg/40px-California_190.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_190" title="California State Route 190">State Route 190</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_193.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/California_193.svg/20px-California_193.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/California_193.svg/30px-California_193.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/California_193.svg/40px-California_193.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_193" title="California State Route 193">State Route 193</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_198.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/California_198.svg/20px-California_198.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/California_198.svg/30px-California_198.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/California_198.svg/40px-California_198.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_198" title="California State Route 198">State Route 198</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_201.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/California_201.svg/20px-California_201.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/California_201.svg/30px-California_201.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/California_201.svg/40px-California_201.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_201" title="California State Route 201">State Route 201</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_216.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/California_216.svg/20px-California_216.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/California_216.svg/30px-California_216.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/California_216.svg/40px-California_216.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_216" title="California State Route 216">State Route 216</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_219.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/California_219.svg/20px-California_219.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/California_219.svg/30px-California_219.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/California_219.svg/40px-California_219.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_219" title="California State Route 219">State Route 219</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_236.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/California_236.svg/20px-California_236.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/California_236.svg/30px-California_236.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/California_236.svg/40px-California_236.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_236" title="California State Route 236">State Route 236</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_237.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/California_237.svg/20px-California_237.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/California_237.svg/30px-California_237.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/California_237.svg/40px-California_237.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_237" title="California State Route 237">State Route 237</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_238.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/California_238.svg/20px-California_238.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/California_238.svg/30px-California_238.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/California_238.svg/40px-California_238.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_238" class="mw-redirect" title="California State Route 238">State Route 238</a> (Mission Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_245.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/California_245.svg/20px-California_245.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/California_245.svg/30px-California_245.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/California_245.svg/40px-California_245.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_245" title="California State Route 245">State Route 245</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_254.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/California_254.svg/20px-California_254.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/California_254.svg/30px-California_254.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/California_254.svg/40px-California_254.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_254" class="mw-redirect" title="California State Route 254">State Route 254</a> (Avenue of the Giants)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_262.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/California_262.svg/20px-California_262.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/California_262.svg/30px-California_262.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/California_262.svg/40px-California_262.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_262" title="California State Route 262">State Route 262</a> (Mission Boulevard)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_267.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_267.svg/20px-California_267.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_267.svg/30px-California_267.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/California_267.svg/40px-California_267.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_267" title="California State Route 267">State Route 267</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_269.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/California_269.svg/20px-California_269.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/California_269.svg/30px-California_269.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/California_269.svg/40px-California_269.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_269" title="California State Route 269">State Route 269</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_275.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/California_275.svg/20px-California_275.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/California_275.svg/30px-California_275.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/California_275.svg/40px-California_275.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_275" title="California State Route 275">State Route 275</a> (Tower Bridge Gateway)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:California_299.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_299.svg/20px-California_299.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_299.svg/30px-California_299.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_299.svg/40px-California_299.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="401" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_299" title="California State Route 299">State Route 299</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communication">Communication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Communication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Telephone_area_codes">Telephone area codes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Telephone area codes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_209" class="mw-redirect" title="Area code 209">209</a> — Northern <a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California">Stockton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Merced,_California" title="Merced, California">Merced</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_408_and_669" title="Area codes 408 and 669">408/669</a> — Most of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara County">Santa Clara County</a> (<a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_415_and_628" title="Area codes 415 and 628">415/628</a> — <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daly_City,_California" title="Daly City, California">Daly City</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Marin_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Marin County">Marin County</a>. One of the three original <a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan#Area_code" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area Codes</a> in California.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_510_and_341" title="Area codes 510 and 341">510/341</a> — Inner <a href="/wiki/East_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">East Bay</a> (<a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a>). Originally part of area code 415.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_530" title="Area code 530">530</a> — A large northeastern section of the region including <a href="/wiki/Tehama_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehama County">Tehama County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shasta_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Shasta County">Shasta County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lassen_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Lassen County">Lassen County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yuba_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuba County">Yuba County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sutter_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutter County">Sutter County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Butte_County,_California" title="Butte County, California">Butte County</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nevada_County,_California" title="Nevada County, California">Nevada County</a>. Split from area code 916 in 1997–1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_559" title="Area code 559">559</a> — Southern <a href="/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Madera,_California" title="Madera, California">Madera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California">Visalia</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_650" title="Area code 650">650</a> — <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula" title="San Francisco Peninsula">San Francisco Peninsula</a> (<a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redwood_City,_California" title="Redwood City, California">Redwood City</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a>). Originally part of area code 415.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_707" class="mw-redirect" title="Area code 707">707</a> — The <a href="/wiki/North_Coast,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="North Coast, California">North Coast</a> section of the region from <a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonoma County">Sonoma County</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> border. Cities include <a href="/wiki/Eureka,_California" title="Eureka, California">Eureka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukiah,_California" title="Ukiah, California">Ukiah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California" title="Santa Rosa, California">Santa Rosa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Napa,_California" title="Napa, California">Napa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vallejo,_California" title="Vallejo, California">Vallejo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_California" title="Fairfield, California">Fairfield</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_831" title="Area code 831">831</a> — <a href="/wiki/Monterey_County,_California" title="Monterey County, California">Monterey</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Benito_County,_California" title="San Benito County, California">San Benito</a> and <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_County,_California" title="Santa Cruz County, California">Santa Cruz Counties</a>. Originally part of area code 408.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_916" class="mw-redirect" title="Area code 916">916/279</a> — <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento County">Sacramento County</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento">Sacramento</a> suburbs in western <a href="/wiki/Placer_County,_California" title="Placer County, California">Placer</a> and <a href="/wiki/El_Dorado_County,_California" title="El Dorado County, California">El Dorado Counties</a>. One of the three original area codes in California, formerly covered all areas now within 530.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Area_code_925" title="Area code 925">925</a> — Outer <a href="/wiki/East_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">East Bay</a> (<a href="/wiki/Concord,_California" title="Concord, California">Concord</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburg,_California" title="Pittsburg, California">Pittsburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walnut_Creek,_California" title="Walnut Creek, California">Walnut Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Ramon,_California" title="San Ramon, California">San Ramon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pleasanton,_California" title="Pleasanton, California">Pleasanton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Livermore,_California" title="Livermore, California">Livermore</a>). Originally part of area codes 415 and 510.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Bay_Bridge_Series" title="Bay Bridge Series">Bay Bridge Series</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sports_in_California#Northern_California–Southern_California_rivalry" title="Sports in California">Sports in California § Northern California–Southern California rivalry</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_league_professional_sports_teams">Major league professional sports teams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_California&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Major league professional sports teams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Sport</th> <th>League</th> <th>Team</th> <th>Venue</th> <th>City </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" style="padding:0 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding:0 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">MLB</a> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a>)</small> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/O.co_Coliseum" class="mw-redirect" title="O.co Coliseum">RingCentral Coliseum</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a>)</small> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Oracle_Park" title="Oracle Park">Oracle Park</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" style="padding:0 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding:0 10px;"><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Chase_Center" title="Chase Center">Chase Center</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> </td> <td style="padding:2px 10px 2px 10px;"><a href="/wiki/Golden_1_Center" title="Golden 1 Center">Golden 1 Center</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">Football</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco 49ers</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Levi%27s_Stadium" title="Levi's Stadium">Levi's Stadium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">Ice hockey</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">NHL</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_Sharks" title="San Jose Sharks">San Jose Sharks</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/SAP_Center_at_San_Jose" class="mw-redirect" title="SAP Center at San Jose">SAP Center</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Soccer</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">MLS</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_Earthquakes" title="San Jose Earthquakes">San Jose Earthquakes</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Avaya_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Avaya Stadium">Avaya Stadium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Indoor_American_football" class="mw-redirect" title="Indoor American football">Indoor football</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Indoor_Football_League" title="Indoor Football League">IFL</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Panthers" title="Bay Area Panthers">Bay Area Panthers</a> </td> <td style="padding:10px;"><a href="/wiki/SAP_Center" title="SAP Center">SAP Center</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="College_sports_teams">College sports teams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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