San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is the cultural and economic center of Northern California. The region surrounds and includes San Francisco Bay, and is anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and
Golden Gate Bridge at Purple sunset
OAKLAND, CA, USA Skyline and Bridge
Chimney Rock Trail Point Reyes December 2016 panorama 1
Autumn in Napa Valley vineyards
California
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California is a U.S. state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with
San Francisco Bay Area
…known as the Bay Area or simply the Bay. With a population of over nine million people, the Bay Area is the second-largest combined statistical area in California and the fifth-largest in the United States. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the…
Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claiming California for the Spanish Empire in 1542
Junípero Serra conducting the first Mass in Monterey Bay in 1770
The Spanish founded Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of California's missions.
General Mariano G. Vallejo reviewing his troops in the Sonoma Plaza, 1846