- California's Mount Whitney measures as the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
- The highest and lowest points in the continental United States are within 100 miles (160 km) of one another. Mount Whitney measures 14,495 feet (4,418 m) and Bad Water in Death Valley is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.
- Alpine County, south of Lake Tahoe, is the eighth smallest of California's 58 counties. It has no high schools, ATMs, dentists, banks, or traffic lights. It is also the only county in the state that doesn't generate agricultural production.
- Totaling nearly three million acres, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the entire United States.
- San Francisco Bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor.
- California is bigger than eighty-five of the smallest nations in the world.
- California Caverns claims the distinction of being the most extensive system of caves and passageways in the California Foothills region of the state.
- The area around Geyserville, just north of San Francisco, is the largest geothermal area in the world.
- Mount Shasta, at 14,162 feet, (4248 m) is the tallest volcano in California and the second highest in America.
- Portions of Mount Lassen in Northern California still resemble an active volcano with boiling mud pots, hot springs, and steam rising from the side of the mountain. Mount Lassen last erupted less than 100 years ago with a seven mile high plume of ash.
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