Meanings
- The northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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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 Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
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 the original on 17 Aug 2025Synonyms: Norcal
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Northern California. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Northern%20California
“Northern California.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Northern%20California. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Northern California,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Northern%20California.
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