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California Cities and Towns
Alameda Berkeley Bodega Bay Brentwood Camarillo Concord Davis Emeryville Guadalupe Healdsburg Long Beach Los Angeles Martinez Monterey Moss Landing Mount Shasta Mountain View Oakland Oxnard Palo Alto Pleasanton Port Costa Pt Reyes Station Sacramento, San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Barbara Santa Cruz Sausalito South Lake Tahoe Stinson Beach Tomales Vallejo, California Ventura
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Alameda, California

The city is primarily located on Alameda Island, but also spans Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island, as well as a few other smaller islands in San Francisco Bay. The city's estimated population in 2019 was 77,624.[from wikipedia]

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Berkeley, California

Across the bay from San Francisco and home ofthe University of California at Berkeley.

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Bodega Bay, California

On highway onenorth of San Francisco

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Brentwood, California

A suburb with infrequent buses to BART

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Camarillo, California

Founded 1927 and named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo

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Concord, California
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Davis, A California City

Davis, known prior to 1907 as Davisville, is a city in the U.S. state of California and the most populous city in Yolo County. It had a population of 65,622 in 2010, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Davis, which was over 9,400 (not including students' families) in 2016. As of 2016, there were 35,186 students enrolled at the university.[from wikipedia]

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Emeryville, California
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Guadalupe, California

A small coastal town just south of San Luis Obispo.

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Healdsburg, in Sonoma County, California

Calls itself "A small town for all seasons."

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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Long Beach, A Southern California City

Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States.

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Martinez, California

The county seat of Contra Costa County

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Monterey, California

A California city located on the southern end of Monterey Bay.

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Moss Landing, California

Half way between Santa Cruz and Monterey

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Mountain View, A California City

Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Mountain View is one of the principal cities of Silicon Valley. It has a population of 82,739.[from wikipedia]

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Mount Shasta, A California City

A city in Siskiyou County, California, at about 3,600 feet (1,100 m) above sea level on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a prominent northern California landmark.

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Oakland, California
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Oxnard, California

Founded in 1897 as the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District

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Palo Alto, California

Home to Stanford University

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Pleasanton, California, A U.S. City

Pleasanton is an affluent city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area located about 25 miles (40 km) east of Oakland, and 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton was ranked the wealthiest middle-sized city in the United States by the Census Bureau. [from wikipedia]

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Port Costa

A small townon Carquinez Straight

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Pt Reyes Station, California

A small townon the Marin coast

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Sacramento,, Capital of California
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San Jose, A Califonia City, At The Bottom of San Franciso Bay

By the end of 1847, the Conquest of California by the United States was complete, as the Mexican-American War came to an end. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ceded California to the United States, as part of the Mexican Cession. On December 15, 1849, San Jose became the capital of the unorganized territory of California. With California's Admission to the Union on September 9, 1850, San Jose became the state's first capital.[from wikipedia]

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San Diego
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Santa Barbara, California

Nicknamed "The American Riviera" founded in 1782

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Santa Cruz, California

Colloquially referred to as Surf City, also the County Seat

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Sausalito, California

The Southernmost city in Marin County, California.With views of San Francisco, Alcatraz, Angel Island, and Tiberon.

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San Francisco, California

Baghdad by the Bay

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South Lake Tahoe, California

Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in El Dorado County.

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Stinson Beach, California

Just up highway one above San Francisco

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Tomales, California

Just up highway one above Point Rayes Station

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Vallejo, California, A City in Salono County

Vallejo is named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the famed Californio general and statesman. The city was founded in 1851 on General Vallejo's Rancho Suscol to serve as the capital city of California, which it served as from 1852 until 1853, when the Californian government moved to neighboring Benicia.[from wikipedia]

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Ventura, California

Junípero Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura in 1782


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