Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. As of January 1, 2008, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 161,496 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont.
Santa Rosa's metropolitan statistical area has a population of 486,630, making it the 12th largest in California and th...
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Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. As of January 1, 2008, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 161,496 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont.
Santa Rosa's metropolitan statistical area has a population of 486,630, making it the 12th largest in California and the 105th largest in the United States.
Santa Rosa has a total area of 40.37 sq mi (104.6 km), of which 40.13 sq mi (103.9 km) is land and 0.25 sq mi (0.6 km) (0.62%) is water.
The city is part of the North Bay region, which includes such cities as Sonoma, Healdsburg and Sebastopol. It lies along the US Route 101 corridor, approximately 55 miles (90 km) north of San Francisco, via the Golden Gate Bridge.
Santa Rosa lies on the Santa Rosa Plain; its eastern extremities stretch into the Valley of the Moon, and the Sonoma Creek watershed known as...
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