Understanding California at the deepest level is SFGATE’s mission. That’s why we decided to make our own regional map, starting with soliciting as much reader feedback as we could to help us ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding — a giant sock-shaped space somehow stuffed with both mountains and beach, palm trees and eucalyptus, snow and sun, avocados and almonds ...

But those boundaries can vary wildly. Numerous organizations in California have attempted the challenging task of dividing the state into distinct regions, yet no map is the perfect point of ...