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((Short description|Subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States))
((More citations needed|date=July 2023))
[[Image:SFNorthBay.JPG|thumb|right|300px|[[San Francisco]] is in the foreground in this picture looking north. San Pablo Bay continues north surrounded by parts of (left to right) [[Marin County, California|Marin]], [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma]], [[Solano County, California|Solano]] and [[Napa County, California|Napa]] Counties.]]
The '''North Bay''' is a subregion of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], in [[California]], United States. The largest city is [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], which is the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. It is the location of the [[Wine Country (California)|Napa and Sonoma wine regions]], and is the least populous and least urbanized part of the Bay Area. It consists of [[Marin County, California|Marin]], [[Napa County, California|Napa]], [[Solano County, California|Solano]] and [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma]] counties.

==Transportation==
The North Bay is connected to [[San Francisco]] by the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and to the [[East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)|East Bay]] by the [[Richmond–San Rafael Bridge]], [[Carquinez Bridge]] and the [[Benicia–Martinez Bridge]]. Several [[ferry]] routes operate between the North Bay and San Francisco, from terminals located in [[Angel Island (California)|Angel Island]], [[Larkspur, California|Larkspur]], [[Sausalito, California|Sausalito]], [[Tiburon, California|Tiburon]] and [[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]].

The [[Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit]] ([http://www.sonomamarintrain.org SMART]), a [[commuter rail]] line from [[Larkspur, California|Larkspur]] to [[Cloverdale, California|Cloverdale]], was approved by voters in November 2008. Passenger service began between the Sonoma County Airport station and San Rafael in August 2017 and was completed as far south as Larkspur in 2019.

== Law enforcement ==
The law enforcement in the [[Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit]] is being provided by its contracted [[List of law enforcement agencies in California#Municipal agencies|law enforcement agencies]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.sonomamarintrain.org/node/326|title=Law Enforcement Agencies to Join SMART in Promoting Rail Safety|date=November 2019|access-date=July 9, 2023))</ref>

==History==
[[Image:SFMarin.JPG|thumb|left|300px|[[San Francisco]] in the foreground looking north over [[Marin County, California|Marin]].]]
The area was the home of [[Pomo]] Native Americans before European invasion. The Russians first settled the area at [[Fort Ross, California|Fort Ross]] as a fur-trading post, but the area was later settled by the Spanish-Mexican [[Alta California]]. The [[Bear Flag Revolt]] took place in the town of [[Sonoma, California|Sonoma]], which is also the location of the last of the [[California Missions]]. General [[Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo]], the last secretary to the Governor of California before its annexation to the United States, kept his home in Sonoma; his ranch, now a National Historic Landmark, was in nearby [[Petaluma, California|Petaluma]].

The North Bay remained isolated and rural well into the 20th Century. The opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s transformed Marin County from a dairy farming region into an upscale [[suburb]]an area. Until the 1990s, the region's growth was at a gradual pace, with significant restrictions on development being imposed in Marin and Napa Counties in the 1970s (future Senator [[Barbara Boxer]] was an important figure in the North Bay's open space preservation movement).((Clear))

==Major cities==
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The largest city in the North Bay is [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], with a population of 175,000.

Other major cities include:
(sorted by population)
*[[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]] 121,000
*[[Fairfield, California|Fairfield]] 116,000
*[[Vacaville, California|Vacaville]] 100,000
*[[Napa, California|Napa]] 80,000
*[[Petaluma, California|Petaluma]] 60,000
*[[San Rafael, California|San Rafael]] 59,000
*[[Novato, California|Novato]] 56,000

==See also==
((Portal|San Francisco Bay Area))
* [[North Coast AVA]]
* [[North Coast (California)]]
* [[San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge]]
* [[Suisun City]]

==References==
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[[Category:Subregions of the San Francisco Bay Area]]
[[Category:Regions of California]]

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