City and County of San Francisco
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| City and County of San Francisco | |||
Images from top, left to right: Golden Gate Bridge, Aerial view of Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, Financial District, San Francisco with Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco's historic San Francisco cable car system, Chinatown, San Francisco, and the Golden Gate Bridge with fog
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| Nickname(s): The City; The City by the Bay; The Golden City; Fog City; San Fran;Saint Frank; Frisco (all 3 locally disparaged);The City that Knows How (past);Baghdad by the Bay (past);The Paris of the West (past); | |||
| Motto: Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra (Spanish) (English: "Gold in Peace, Iron in War") |
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.svg) Location of San Francisco in California |
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| Coordinates: 37°47′N 122°25′W / 37.783°N 122.417°WCoordinates: 37°47′N 122°25′W / 37.783°N 122.417°W | |||
| Country | United States | ||
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| CSA | San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland | ||
| Metro | San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward | ||
| Mission | June 29, 1776 | ||
| Incorporated | April 15, 1850 | ||
| Founded by |
José Joaquin Moraga Francisco Palóu |
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| Named for | St. Francis of Assisi | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Mayor-council | ||
| • Body | Board of Supervisors | ||
| • Mayor | Edwin M. Lee (D) | ||
| • Supervisors |
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| • Assembly members |
David Chiu (D) Phil Ting (D) |
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| • State senator | Scott Wiener (D) | ||
| • United States Representatives |
Nancy Pelosi (D) Jackie Speier (D) |
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| Area | |||
| • City and county | 231.89 sq mi (600.6 km2) | ||
| • Land | 46.87 sq mi (121.4 km2) | ||
| • Water | 185.02 sq mi (479.2 km2) 80.00% | ||
| • Metro | 3,524.4 sq mi (9,128 km2) | ||
| Elevation | 52 ft (16 m) | ||
| Highest elevation | 934 ft (285 m) | ||
| Lowest elevation | 0 ft (0 m) | ||
| Population (July 1, 2015) | |||
| • City and county | 864,816 | ||
| • Rank | 13th, U.S. | ||
| • Density | 18,451/sq mi (7,124/km2) | ||
| • Metro | 4,656,132 (11th) | ||
| • CSA | 8,713,914 (5th) | ||
| Demonym(s) | San Franciscan | ||
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC−8) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−7) | ||
| ZIP Codes | 94102–94105, 94107–94112, 94114–94134, 94137, 94139–94147, 94151, 94158–94161, 94163–94164, 94172, 94177, 94188 | ||
| Area codes | 415/628 | ||
| FIPS codes |
06-67000 (city) 06-075 (county) |
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| GNIS feature IDs | 277593, 2411786 | ||
| Website | www |
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San Francisco (SF) (/sæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/) (Spanish for Saint Francis) officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California, the birthplace of the United Nations and the only consolidated city-county in California. San Francisco is about 47.9 square miles (124 km2) in area, making it the smallest county within the state, and with a density of about 18,451 people per square mile (7,124 people per km2), it is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City. It is located on the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 13th-most populous city in the United States—with a Census-estimated 2015 population of 864,816. The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area, and are a part of the larger OMB-designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8.7 million.
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