Northern California

Northern California: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.

area · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07

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NorCal at a glance

Rolled up from the 22 regions inside NorCal on this site.

Population—
registry estimate
Places inside22
17 with a full /local page
Businesses on file178,123
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered793
in the company directory
Who represents them11
places with a /politics page
Property & employers11 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Largest places in NorCal

By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.

  1. 1.San Francisco, California full826,079
  2. 2.Fresno, California full542,107
  3. 3.Oakland, California full440,646
  4. 4.Fremont, California full230,504
  5. 5.Modesto, California full218,464
  6. 6.Santa Rosa, California full178,127
  7. 7.Hayward, California full162,954
  8. 8.Visalia, California full141,384
  9. 9.Vallejo, California full126,090
  10. 10.Berkeley, California full124,321
  11. 11.Fairfield, California full119,881
  12. 12.Livermore, California full87,955
  13. 13.Merced, California full86,333
  14. 14.Pleasanton, California full79,871
  15. 15.Napa, California full76,921
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Inside NorCal

7 regions have NorCal as their parent.

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Companies based in NorCal

2 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 793 across NorCal and the places inside it — search them all below.

CompanyIndustryFounded
Apollo SoftwareEntertainment
Premier MushroomsFood2007

areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Northern California are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.