Northern California
English
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
- Synonym: Norcal
- 2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:
- 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.