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Northern California

Northern California proper noun: the northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Proper noun

Northern California

  1. The northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area.
    • The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San...2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
    Synonyms:
    Norcal

Synonyms of Northern California

Questions about Northern California

What does Northern California mean?
Northern California means the northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area.
What part of speech is Northern California?
Northern California is a proper noun.

Words near Northern California in the dictionary

  1. northern brown bandicoots
  2. Northern Bruce Peninsula
  3. northern brushtail possum
  4. northern brushtail possums
  5. northern buffed-cheeked gibbon
  6. Northern California
  7. Northern Canada
  8. Northern Cape
  9. northern cardinal
  10. northern cardinals
  11. Northern Carrier

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