California

Meaning

Proper Noun

• state US (country) .
• Several places in the United States.
• Several places in England.
• community Ontario (province) Canada (country).
• town department, Santander Colombia (country).
• town department, Usulután El Salvador (country).
• neighborhood city, Casablanca Morocco (country).
• village Bohol (province) Philippines (country).
• village county, Stirlingshire Scotland (country).
• town Trinidad and Tobago (country).
• University of California, Berkeley.

Origin

• Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, , whose name is a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة ("caliph").