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The North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The largest city is Santa Rosa, which is the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. It is the location of the Napa and Sonoma wine regions, and is the least populous and least urbanized part of the Bay Area. It consists of Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
38.448611 -122.704722. 5 Santa Rosa - The largest city of the North Bay, home to a museum devoted to Charles Schulz and a good jumping-off point for exploring the region. 37.857778 -122.490278. 6 Sausalito - A charming community perched on a hillside by the bay that's an easy ferry ride from San Francisco. 37.873611 -122.456667.
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November 2014 photo by Doc Searls. San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland . San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California.
The North Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area lies north of the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best-known for being the home of Napa Valley, America's largest wine producing region, and for Marin County, which is a forested, coastal area. It is the northernmost part of the Bay Area.
Etymology See also: List of San Francisco placename etymologies San Francisco, which is Spanish for "Saint Francis," takes its name from Mission San Francisco de Asís, which in turn was named after Saint Francis of Assisi. The mission received its name in 1776, when it was founded by the Spanish under the leadership of Padre Francisco Palóu. The city has officially been known as San ...
The San Francisco Bay Area, also known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan area that goes around the San Francisco Bay in Northern California. It includes the cities of San Francisco, San José, and Oakland, and their many suburbs. It also includes the smaller urban and rural areas of the North Bay. Over seven million people live in the San ...
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
