The Eastern District of California (EDCA) is now the eighth most populous of the nation’s 94 judicial districts, encompassing six large urban areas: Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton,Vallejo, and Fairfield. The district extends over 87,000 square miles and includes 34 counties reaching from the Oregon border in the north, down to Bakersfield in the south, from the coastal mountains in the west, to the Nevada border in the east.