California Counties

California has 58 counties. How many can you name?

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First submitted	January 24, 2011
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County

Alameda

Alpine

Amador

Butte

Calaveras

Colusa

Contra Costa

Del Norte

El Dorado

Fresno

Glenn

Humboldt

County

Imperial

Inyo

Kern

Kings

Lake

Lassen

Los Angeles

Madera

Marin

Mariposa

Mendocino

Merced

County

Modoc

Mono

Monterey

Napa

Nevada

Orange

Placer

Plumas

Riverside

Sacramento

San Benito

San Bernardino

County

San Diego

San Francisco

San Joaquin

San Luis Obispo

San Mateo

Santa Barbara

Santa Clara

Santa Cruz

Shasta

Sierra

Siskiyou

County

Solano

Sonoma

Stanislaus

Sutter

Tehama

Trinity

Tulare

Tuolumne

Ventura

Yolo

Yuba

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56 Comments

+10

Level 63

Jun 7, 2014

I got about half of them on the first try, not that great since I lived there for 40 years. I decided to memorize the rest and eventually i began wondering where they all were in relation to the ones I already knew. I downloaded a bunch of county maps just a few days ago and today when I come back to the quiz I see you have added a map! (I do miss the populations though, that was very interesting info.)

Level 81

Jun 11, 2014

These comments make me feel a bit better. I was only there for a year and a half.

Level 67

Jun 11, 2014

We had a giant map of the state in our living room when I was studying for the bar, so I memorized them while sitting in those boring bar review classes. I thought I was hot stuff until I got to Arkansas, where the guy we were staying with could recite all of Mississippi's 82 counties in alphabetical order. Texas? Wouldn't even try.

Level 81

Jun 11, 2014

Used to live in California and I only got 16, including some that were complete guesses like "Lake," "Sierra," and "Nevada." I missed Contra Costa even though I had an apartment there for three months and lived right next to Contra Costa Community College. This was all many years ago so I don't feel too bad.

Level 81

Jun 11, 2014

Also, Yolo County? Is that where Xtreme Sports got their start?

Level 65

Jan 3, 2016

Drake must not be far...

Level 56

Jun 11, 2014

I shouldve gotten Marin and Napa...

Level 64

Jun 11, 2014

Managed to get 24 and have never stepped foot in the state! Woot woot!

Level 49

Dec 30, 2019

26 and have only ever been to San Francisco.

Level 78

Jun 14, 2014

I live here and only managed to get 27. Too early in the day. Missed a few really easy ones.

Level 65

Nov 12, 2015

I'm from San Francisco and I only got 12.

Level 36

Mar 9, 2016

Im 10, from India, and got all of them. Any harder ones?

+13

Level 46

Apr 16, 2021

im 3 from bangladesh and my name is ladesh. need an even harder one, as i got 234/58

+10

Level 58

Nov 4, 2021

im a fetus from sri lanka and my name is Pradeep. I got 432/π. please make a harder one as this is way to easy.

Level 20

Jan 9, 2024

I'm from the future. I just wanna tell myself (i'm not born yet) that I only got 45768246568/56. You're a failure bro.

Level 13

Jun 27, 2016

2:26. Gonna be better.

Level 37

Aug 5, 2016

10/58 i'm from Colorado lol

Level 28

Aug 25, 2019

86% from Florida, maybe its tropical psychic. Just kidding that would be insane. Why do Californians have to name their counties so weird? Mono, Modoc, Merced?

Level 60

Mar 7, 2020

Modoc is the name of an American Indian people. I don't know why they named the county that, specifically.

Level 52

Apr 11, 2021

I actually have a book on California place names by William Bright. "Modoc" is derived from moowat'aakknii, meaning "southerners" in the Klamath language. The Modoc were related to the Klamath tribe of Oregon.

"Merced" was named after "Nuestera Señora de la Merced, 'Our Lady of Mercy.'" The county was established in 1855.

There is no entry for Mono County but according to Wikipedia, "The term 'Mono' is derived from 'Monachi', a Yokut term for the tribes that live on both the east and west side of the Sierra Nevada."

Level 74

Oct 1, 2021

Because, cruelly– as the state of the union most definitively built upon malicious, intentional genocide– we decided to keep a lot of the names the same.

Level 47

Oct 18, 2016

Time for a quiz with all of the US Counties in ONE quiz!

Level 76

Dec 24, 2017

According to Wikipedia: "As of 2016, there were 3,007 counties, 64 parishes, 18 organized boroughs, 11 census areas, 41 independent cities, and the District of Columbia for a total of 3,142 counties and county-equivalents in the United States". So good luck with that!!

Level 74

Dec 29, 2018

If you want to actually try that, Stewart made a quiz just for you here. It's like impossible to complete

Level 39

Oct 25, 2016

Placer County native! Hey

Level 37

Dec 10, 2016

16% but im from Colorado

Level 51

Oct 3, 2017

Kept putting "Tecoma" for some reason.

Level 66

Dec 24, 2017

More place name quizzes :)

USA Centric - Common Place Names:

#2 - No Townships

#3 - Local Only

Level 37

Dec 25, 2017

22/58 Coloradan here

Level 48

Jul 2, 2018

Lived there for 18 years, got 33. Of the ones I missed about half sound familiar, as in I must have heard them in the news some time. But 13 I did not recognize at all.

Level 90

Sep 7, 2018

Where'd the map go?

Level 74

Dec 29, 2018

54/58 and I'll just say I represent El Dorado County

Level 46

Apr 16, 2021

lot of family lives there

Level 74

Dec 29, 2018

Quick Fact: San Bernardino (20,105 sq mi) is the largest county in the country by size and is slightly smaller than West Virginia (24,230 sq mi)

Level 67

Mar 31, 2020

San Bernardino County is bigger than Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Hawai'i.

Level 51

Nov 5, 2019

I finally got them all right. California has some of the oldest politicians in the country.

Level 83

Apr 27, 2022

How would they do on this quiz, I wonder?

Level 67

Mar 31, 2020

all in 2:14

Level 65

May 28, 2020

I live in an adjacent county and we just call San Luis Obispo SLO so if you could allow that.

Level 71

Sep 12, 2020

22/58 38% I'm from New York and I have never stepped foot in the state

Level 81

Sep 15, 2020

This time around I got "Yuba" on a total guess. How? Wth is a yuba? Just sounded like the name of a CA county...

Level 69

Nov 15, 2022

Fun fact, Yuba city is not in Yuba county! It is literally across the river in Sutter county. I noticed this when I had to go work there and cross the bridge separating the two counties.

Level 51

Sep 15, 2020

Yuba sounds like an Arizona county to me :)

Level 45

Nov 11, 2021

Yep, Yuma County, Arizona.

Level 54

Dec 19, 2020

15/58

Level 57

Feb 27, 2021

Nice! I’m surprised I got 35 of them, but never been there.

Level 66

Apr 11, 2021

I got 9 (UK based) and thought zero points for me...but I actually got 1 point! Very surprised how low scoring this quiz is.

Level 52

Apr 11, 2021

I remember looking at all the county displays at the State Fair, and also each county's poster when I visited the State Capitol several times. But I still only got 28. There's a Trinity County??

Level 22

Apr 14, 2021

33 correct!

Level 93

Aug 19, 2021

riverside is a strange name given the county's shape; nearly half of it is closer to the ocean than the river.

Level 54

Sep 30, 2021

Well it is named after the city of Riverside inside it, which is named after the Santa Ana river it lies next to. but still over a hundred miles from the much bigger Colorado River.

Level 72

Jan 3, 2023

lived here for the last and only 18 years of my life and managed to get 'em all. Tehama really screwed with me for a second but I managed.

Level 43

Jan 5, 2023

Inyo County in the house!

Level 22

Dec 17, 2023

got them all live in Washington state

Level 20

Jan 13, 2024

7th state done,

43 left...

Level 28

Feb 10, 2024

The Interesting Fact that I got after finishing this was "More than half of unsheltered homeless people in the U.S. live in California."

Coincidence much?

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