- Inception
- 9 September 1850
- Population
- 33871648, 3262000, 864694, 3008000, 1702000, 37253956, 29760021, 23667902, 19953134, 15717204, 10586223, 6907387
- Area
- 423970.0
- Elevation
- 884 m
- compulsory education (maximum age)
- 18
- contains the administrative territorial entity
- Alameda County, Alpine County, Amador County, Butte County, Calaveras County, Colusa County, Contra Costa County, Del Norte County, El Dorado County, Fresno County, Glenn County, Humboldt County
- demonym
- Californian, Kaliforniano, Californiano, Californiana, californiani
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The American Cyclopædia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, New International Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
- hashtag
- California
- language used
- Esselen, Chimariko, Karuk, Obispeño, Cupeño, Louisiana Creole, Salinan, Serrano, Southern Sierra Miwok, Chico, Central Sierra Miwok, Purisimeño
- marriageable age
- 18, 21
- maximum temperature record
- 134
- mean age
- 36.7
- median income
- 63636
- minimum temperature record
- -45
- minimum wage
- 15.50
- motto text
- Eureka
- native label
- California
- nickname
- The Golden State, الولاية الذهبية, Y Dalaith Aur, El Estado Dorado
- number of households
- 13103114
- number of seats in assembly
- 2, 53, 55
- official name
- State of California
- OpenStreetMap zoom level
- 5
- per capita income
- 38576
- short name
- Cal., Calif., CA, Ca Li
- social media followers
- 439654
- water as percent of area
- 4.84