California
Perhaps the most diverse of all the fifty states in the Union, California has a culture ranging from the easygoing surf spots on the beaches of Southern California to the glamor of Hollywood, and the counterculture and thriving businesses of the Bay Area.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
San Francisco
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The centerpiece of the Bay Area, San Francisco is one of the most visited cities in the world, and with good reason.
Los Angeles
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Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have quipped, "Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles," a quote that has since been repeated both by those who love and hate L.A.
San Diego
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From balmy beaches with a laid-back attitude to a gleaming modern image, San Diego offers much for the tourist to enjoy.
Destinations
Southern California
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Southern California is a megapolitan area in the southern region of the U.S. state of California.
Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California…
Central Coast
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The Central Coast of California is a region that remains calm and tranquil.
San Joaquin Valley
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The San Joaquin Valley of California stretches from the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles up to Sacramento.
Shasta Cascades
The Shasta Cascades region of California includes the northeast corner of the state, home to volcanoes, lush forests, high mountains, and clear lakes.Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada region of California is its alpine region, covering a large portion of the state's inland territory.Gold Country
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Gold Country is a region of California that includes foothills of the western Sierra Nevada mountains and many historic towns that date to the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Sacramento Valley
The Sacramento Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River.Desert
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The California Desert is composed of California's entire southeast corner and offers excellent opportunities for hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts.
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California
- Type: State with 37,300,000 residents
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Neighbors: Arizona, Baja California, Nevada and Oregon
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
37.1253° or 37° 7' 31" northLongitude of center
-119.8389° or 119° 50' 20" westPopulation
37,300,000Elevation
1,539 feet (469 metres)Abbreviation
CalifAbbreviation
CAIATA airport code
WCCOpenStreetMap ID
node 671022OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
5332921Wikidata ID
Q99California Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kalifurnya
- Afar: Kaliforniya shtatı
- Afrikaans: Kalifornië
- Albanian: Kaliforni
- Albanian: Kalifornia
- Amharic: ካሊፎርኒያ
- Arabic: California
- Arabic: كالي
- Arabic: كاليفورنيا
- Arabic: ولاية كاليفورنيا
- Aragonese: California
- Armenian: Կալիֆոռնիա
- Armenian: Քալիֆորնիա
- Arpitan: California
- Asturian: California
- Aymara: California suyu
- Azerbaijani: Kaliforniya
- Balinese: California
- Bashkir: Калифорния
- Basque: Kalifornia
- Bavarian: CA
- Bavarian: Kalifornien
- Belarusian: Каліфорнія
- Bengali: ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া
- Bhojpuri: कैलिफोर्निया
- Bhojpuri: कैलीफोर्निया
- Bishnupriya: ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া
- Bislama: Kalifornia
- Bosnian: Kalifornija
- Breton: Kalifornia
- Bulgarian: Калифорния
- Burmese: ကယ်လီဖိုးနီးယားပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: California
- Catalan: Califòrnia
- Catalan: Estat de Califòrnia
- Cebuano: California
- Central Bikol: California
- Central Kurdish: کالیفۆرنیا
- Chavacano: California
- Chechen: Калифорни
- Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎳ ᏧᏢᎢ
- Cheyenne: California
- Chinese: California
- Chinese: 加利福尼亚
- Chinese: 加利福尼亚州/加利福尼亞州
- Chinese: 加利福尼亚州
- Chinese: 加利福尼亞
- Chinese: 加利福尼亞州
- Chinese: 加州
- Chinese: 加裏福尼亞
- Chinese: 加裏福尼亞州
- Chinese: 加里福尼亚
- Chinese: 加里福尼亚州
- Chuvash: Калифорни
- Cornish: Kaliforni
- Corsican: California
- Corsican: Statu di a California
- Corsican: US-CA
- Crimean Tatar: Kaliforniya
- Croatian: CA
- Croatian: California
- Croatian: Kalifornija
- Croatian: The Golden State
- Czech: California
- Czech: Kalifornie
- Czech: State of California
- Dagbani: California
- Danish: Californien
- Dimli (individual language): Kaliforniya
- Dutch: California
- Dutch: Californie
- Dutch: Californië
- Eastern Mari: Калифорний
- Egyptian Arabic: كاليفورنيا
- English: CA
- English: Cal.
- English: Cali.
- English: Calif.
- English: California, United States
- English: California Republic
- English: Golden State
- English: State of California
- English: The Golden State
- English: US-CA
- Esperanto: CA
- Esperanto: Kalifornio
- Esperanto: La Ora Ŝtato
- Estonian: California
- Faroese: Kalifornia
- Fiji Hindi: California
- Fijian: California
- Finnish: California
- Finnish: Kalifornia
- French: CA
- French: Californie
- French: l'État doré
- French: État doré
- Gagauz: Kaliforniya
- Galician: California
- Galician: کاليفؤرنيا
- Gan Chinese: 加利福尼亞州
- Georgian: კალიფორნია
- German: CA
- German: California
- German: Kalifornien
- German: State of California
- German: The Golden State
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: California
- Gilaki: کاليفؤرنيا
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌾𐌰
- Greek: Καλιφόρνια
- Guarani: California
- Guarani: Califórnia
- Guarani: Kalifórnia
- Gujarati: કેલિફોર્નિયા
- Haitian: Kalifòni
- Hakka Chinese: California
- Hausa: California
- Hausa: Kaleponi
- Hawaiian: Kaleponi
- Hebrew: קליפורניה
- Hindi: कैलिफ़ोर्निया
- Hungarian: Kalifornia
- Icelandic: Kalifornía
- Ido: Kalifornia
- Igbo: California
- Iloko: California
- Inari Sami: Kalifornia
- Indonesian: California
- Ingush: Калифорни
- Interlingua: California
- Interlingue: California
- Inuktitut: ᑳᓖᐴᕐᓃᐊ
- Inupiaq: California
- Irish: California
- Italian: California
- Italian: Stato della California
- Jamaican Creole English: California
- Japanese: カリフォルニア
- Japanese: カリフォルニア州
- Javanese: California
- Kabiyè: Kalɩfɔrnii
- Kabyle: California
- Kadazan Dusun: California
- Kalmyk: Калифорни
- Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಫೊರ್ನಿಯ
- Kara-Kalpak: Kaliforniya shtati
- Karachay-Balkar: Калифорния
- Kazakh: Калифорния
- Khmer: កាលីហ្វញ៉ា
- Kirghiz: Калифорния
- Korean: 가주
- Korean: 캘리포니아
- Korean: 캘리포니아주
- Korean: 캘리포니아 주
- Kurdish: California
- Kurdish: Kalîforniya
- Ladin: California
- Ladino: California
- Ladino: Kalifornia
- Lao: California
- Latin: California
- Latvian: Kalifornija
- Ligurian: California
- Limburgan: Californië
- Lingua Franca Nova: California
- Literary Chinese: 加利福尼亞州
- Lithuanian: Kalifornija
- Lojban: kalifornias
- Lojban: la .kaliforniias.
- Lombard: California
- Low German: Kalifornien
- Low German: Kalifornië
- Lower Sorbian: Kaliforniska
- Luxembourgish: Kalifornien
- Macedo-Romanian: California
- Macedonian: Калифорнија
- Maithili: क्यालिफोर्निया
- Malagasy: Kalifornia
- Malay: California
- Malayalam: കാലിഫോർണിയ
- Manipuri: ꯀꯥꯂꯤꯐꯣꯔꯅꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: California
- Maori: Karapōnia
- Marathi: कॅलिफोर्निया
- Mazanderani: کالیفرنیا
- Mazanderani: کالیفورنیا
- Min Dong Chinese: California
- Min Nan Chinese: California
- Min Nan Chinese: Ka-chiu
- Minangkabau: California
- Mingrelian: კალიფორნია
- Moksha: Калифорния
- Mongolian: Калифорни
- Mongolian: ꯀꯦꯂꯤꯐꯣꯔꯅꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: كاليفورنيا
- Nauru: California
- Navajo: Ahééháshį́į́h Hahoodzo
- Nepali: क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: क्यालिफोर्निया
- Northern Frisian: California
- Northern Frisian: Californien
- Northern Frisian: Kalifornien
- Northern Luri: کالیفرنیا
- Northern Sami: Kalifornia
- Norwegian: California
- Norwegian: Kalifornien
- Norwegian Bokmål: CA
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cal.
- Norwegian Bokmål: Calif.
- Norwegian Bokmål: California
- Norwegian Nynorsk: California
- Occitan (post 1500): CA
- Occitan (post 1500): Califòrnia
- Occitan (post 1500): Estat de Califòrnia
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܟܐܠܦܘܪܢܝܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): California
- Oriya: କାଲିଫର୍ଣ୍ଣିଆ
- Ossetian: Калифорни
- Pali: क्यालिफोर्निया
- Pampanga: California
- Pangasinan: California
- Panjabi: ਕੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ
- Papiamento: California
- Pennsylvania German: Kalifornie
- Persian: کالیفرنیا
- Pfaelzisch: Kalifornien
- Picard: Californie
- Piemontese: Califòrnia
- Polish: Kalifornia
- Portuguese: Califórnia
- Pushto: کالیفرنیا
- Pushto: کالېفورنیا
- Quechua: California suyu
- Romanian: CA
- Romanian: California
- Romanian: Калифорния
- Romansh: California
- Russia Buriat: Калифорни
- Russian: Калифорния
- Rusyn: Калифорния
- Samoan: Kalefonia
- Samogitian: Kalėfuornėjė
- Sanskrit: कालिफ़ोर्निया
- Sanskrit: कालिफोर्निया
- Santali: ᱠᱮᱞᱤᱯᱷᱳᱨᱱᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Califòrnia
- Sardinian: Istadu de sa Califòrnia
- Saterfriesisch: Kalifornien
- Scots: Californie
- Scottish Gaelic: Calafòrnia
- Serbian: Калифорнија
- Serbo-Croatian: Kalifornija
- Sicilian: California
- Silesian: Kaliforńijo
- Sindhi: ڪيليفورنيا
- Sinhala: කැලිෆෝනියා
- Skolt Sami: Kalifornia
- Slovak: Kalifornia
- Slovenian: Kalifornija
- Somali: Kalifornia
- South Azerbaijani: کالیفورنیا
- South Azerbaijani: کالیفورنیا ایالتی
- Spanish: Alta California
- Spanish: CA
- Spanish: Calif.
- Spanish: California
- Spanish: California (Estados Unidos)
- Spanish: El Estado Dorado
- Spanish: Estado de California
- Sundanese: California
- Sundanese: Kalifornia
- Swahili: California
- Swedish: California
- Swedish: Californien
- Swedish: Kalifornien
- Swiss German: Kalifornie
- Tagalog: California
- Tajik: Калифорния
- Talysh: Kalifornijə
- Talysh: Kaliforniya
- Tamil: கலிபோர்னியா
- Tatar: Калифорния
- Telugu: కాలిఫోర్నియా
- Tetum: California
- Thai: รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย
- Tibetan: ཁྰ་ལེ་ཧྥོར་ནི་ཡ།
- Tosk Albanian: Kalifornien
- Turkish: CA
- Turkish: Cal.
- Turkish: Calif.
- Turkish: Kaliforniya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
- Turkish: Kaliforniya
- Turkish: Kaliforniya eyaleti
- Turkish: State of California
- Turkish: US-CA
- Uighur: Kaliforniye Shitati
- Uighur: كالىفورنىيە شىتاتى
- Ukrainian: Каліфорнія
- Upper Sorbian: Kaliforniska
- Urdu: کیلیفورنیا
- Urdu: کیلی فورنیا
- Uzbek: Kaliforniya
- Venetian: Całifornia
- Veps: Kalifornii
- Vietnamese: Ca-li-pho-ni-a
- Vietnamese: Ca-li-phoóc-ni-a
- Vietnamese: Ca Li
- Vietnamese: California
- Vlaams: Californië
- Vlax Romani: California
- Volapük: Kalifornän
- Walloon: Californeye
- Waray (Philippines): California
- Welsh: Califfornia
- Western Armenian: Քալիֆորնիա
- Western Frisian: Kalifornje
- Western Mari: Калифорни
- Western Panjabi: کیلیفورنیا
- Wu Chinese: 加利福尼亚
- Xhosa: IKhalifoniya
- Yakut: Калифорния
- Yiddish: קאליפארניע
- Yoruba: California
- Yue Chinese: 加利福尼亞州
- Zeeuws: California
- Zeeuws: Californië
- Zulu: California
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page California. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.