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Northern California is a land of dramatic contrasts: soaring skyscrapers and towering redwoods, bustling cities and pathless wilderness, pounding surf and glittering snowcapped peaks. Vintners practice their centuries-old craft in some of the greatest wine-producing areas of North America, while nearby entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley reinvent the world of computers on almost a daily basis. Northern California is home to California's capital (Sacramento), its third-largest city (San Jose), the second-highest mountain of the Cascade Range (Mt. Shasta), the third-most visited national park (Yosemite). It is a land of superlatives.
The area has been popular for a long time. The first pre-Columbian settlers arrived here as long ago as 8,000 BC, and quickly made the area one of the most densely populated in North America. Europeans didn't settle here, however, until 1770, when the mission of Monterey was founded. But with the discovery of gold near Sacramento in 1848, northern California became a magnet for settlers. The area experienced a 300% increase in population during the Gold Rush years; and while the pace slowed considerably in later years, by the turn of the century over a million people lived in the region.
Today, more 12 million live in the northern California region. Yet outside of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas, northern California has a low population density: of the fifteen counties at the bottom of California's population figures, only one of them is outside this region.
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News from the San Francisco Chronicle UC Berkeley students take over building Nov 20, 2009 7:50 pm UC Berkeley students took over a campus building in protest this morning, a day after the University of California regents voted to raise tuition by 32 percent. An undetermined number of protesters ba... Car set on fire near San Pablo hospital Nov 20, 2009 6:27 pm Another vehicle was set ablaze early today in west Contra Costa County, the latest in a spate of car fires that may be the work of a serial arsonist, authorities said. A pickup truck was found on fire... UC regents approve steep tuition hike Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am The University of California regents voted Thursday to raise tuition by 32 percent as angry students pounded drums and blocked exits to the UCLA building where the regents were meeting. "I absolu... Tiburon to record every car coming and going Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday. The Tow... S.F. private eye accused of witness tampering Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am A San Francisco defense investigator has been indicted on witness-tampering charges for allegedly telling an attempted-murder victim to go to the "Fresno Riviera" rather than testify, author... OAKLAND / Lehman Bros. to clean hospital site Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am Lehman Bros. agreed Thursday to pay $3.7 million to clean up Oakland Naval Hospital, formerly called Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, in the Oakland hills, a site that had been set for development before the... SAN FRANCISCO / Fire displaces 15 in Richmond District Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am A three-alarm fire Thursday in a Richmond District duplex under renovation displaced 15 residents of adjacent buildings. No injuries were reported in the blaze that started at a vacant three-story bui... Everything on the table to solve S.F. deficit Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday no city program is assured protection, and no money-making idea is off limits, as city officials begin crafting a budget for next year that already is starting $522 mi... EBMUD Pardee Reservoir expansion faces lawsuit Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am Opponents of an East Bay water utility's effort to enlarge a key reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills threw a legal roadblock into the project's way Thursday, suing the agency to overturn a prelim... Give in on same-sex benefits, judge orders feds Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am The chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco bluntly ordered the Obama administration Thursday to stop resisting his finding that the wife of a lesbian court employee was entitled to governm... |
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