Claim: San Francisco is in the cultural, commercial, and financial center of a region in California.
Evidence: San Francisco -LRB- initials SF -RRB- -LRB- -LSB- sæn_frənˈsɪskoʊ -RSB- , Spanish for Saint Francis ; Spanish : -LSB- san franˈsisko -RSB- -RRB- , officially the City and County of San Francisco , is the cultural , commercial , and financial center of Northern California.
Northern California , often abbreviated NorCal , is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.