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Northern California's largest metropolitan area is the San Francisco Bay Area 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 San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and their many suburbs.
The Sacramento Valley (Spanish: Valle de Sacramento) [ 2 ][ 3 ] is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River. It encompasses all or parts of ten Northern California counties.
The State of Jefferson is a proposed U.S. state that would span the contiguous, mostly rural area of southern Oregon and Northern California, where several attempts to separate from Oregon and California, respectively, have taken place. The region encompasses most of Northern California 's land but does not include San Francisco or other Bay ...
Area cities and towns are known for hundreds of ornate examples of Victorian architecture. Humboldt County is a densely forested mountainous and rural county with about 110 miles (177 km) of coastline (more than any other county in the state), [9] situated along the Pacific coast in Northern California's rugged Coast (Mountain) Ranges.
Mossbrae Falls, near Dunsmuir, California. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,347 square miles (16,440 km 2), of which 6,278 square miles (16,260 km 2) is land and 69 square miles (180 km 2), or 1.1%, is water. [8] It is the fifth-largest county by area in California. [citation needed]
Redding is the economic hub of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California. The Redding Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was recognized as the 29th Most Dynamic MSA in the United States in 2019 by the Walton Family Foundation. [30] Redding was recognized for having a diversified economy with several large employers in different sectors.
PG&E said late Wednesday that the possible engineered outages could begin as early as 1 p.m. in rural areas of the Sacramento Valley and Bay Area before strong winds could expand the shutoffs to ...
1,003,281. • Density. 99/sq mi (38/km 2) The North Coast of California (also called the Redwood Empire[ 3 ] or the Redwood Coast in reference to the dense redwood forests throughout the region) is a region in Northern California that lies on the Pacific coast between San Francisco Bay and the Oregon border.