California (disambiguation)
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California can refer to many places and things. Among them include the following:
- California, one of the 50 states of the United States
- Baja California Peninsula or Lower California, a peninsula of North America in the west of Mexico
- Places in the state of California
- California City, California
- University of California, Berkeley - may be referred to as California or Cal, particularly in reference to its sports teams
- California Speedway in Fontana, California
- Historical entities
- California Republic, a short-lived independent state founded by American rebels against Mexico in 1846
- Alta California, the northern part of the California region of New Spain and Mexico, formed as a separate territory in 1804 and acquired by the United States in 1848
- Las Californias, the wider region along the west coast of North America during Spanish and Mexican rule
- Island of California, an early geographical misconception that the Baja California Peninsula was an island
- See also Origin of the name California.
- Other U.S. locations
- California, Kentucky
- California, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky
- California, Maine
- California, Maryland
- California, Michigan
- California, Missouri
- California, North Carolina
- California, Ohio
- California, Pennsylvania
- In other countries
- Canada:
- California, New Brunswick
- California, Lanark County, Ontario
- California, Leeds and Grenville County, Ontario
- Colombia
- California, Santander a municipality in the Santander Department
- El Salvador:
- Germany:
- Kalifornien, a district of Schönberg (Holstein)
- Italy:
- California, Lecco, Lombardy
- California, Castelfranco Emilia, Emilia Romagna
- La California a village in the municipality of Bibbona in Tuscany
- In the Netherlands:
- Californië a tiny settlement in Gelderland
- Californië a tiny settlement in Limburg
- In Trinidad and Tobago
- California, a settlement in central Trinidad, on the Southern Main Road, immediately south of Couva and Point Lisas
- United Kingdom:
- California, Berkshire
- California, Buckinghamshire
- California, Derby
- California, Falkirk
- California, Norfolk
- California, Suffolk, a suburb of Ipswich
- In astronomy
- 341 California, an asteroid
- California Nebula (NGC 1499), an emission nebula in the constellation Perseus
- Names of ships
- Living creatures
- California poppy, the California state flower
- California quail, the California state bird
- California spiny lobster, a spiny lobster that lives off the coast of the Mexican and the U.S. states
- California condor, a bird of prey
- In music
- California (American Music Club album), 1988 album by American Music Club
- California (Mr. Bungle album), a 1999 album by Mr. Bungle
- "California" (Belinda Carlisle song), a song by Belinda Carlisle from her 1996 album A Woman and a Man
- "California" (song), a song by Phantom Planet from their 2002 album The Guest
See also List of songs about California
- Names
- California Molefe, a Botswanan sprinter runner
- Randy California (born Randy Craig Wolfe), one of the original members of the rock group Spirit
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