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San Francisco (/sæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the
City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of
Northern California and the only consolidated city-county in
California.[24] San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2)[25] on the northern end of the
San Francisco Peninsula, which makes it the smallest county in the state. It has a density of about 18,
187 people per square mile (7,022 people per km2), making it 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.[26] 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 2014 population of 852,469.[21] 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 8.6 million.
San Francisco (
Spanish for
Saint Francis) was founded on June 29,
1776, when colonists from
Spain established
Presidio of San Francisco at the
Golden Gate and
Mission San Francisco de Asís named for
St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away.[9] The
California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the
West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856.[27] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the
1906 earthquake and fire,[28] San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In
World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the
Pacific Theater.[29]
After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the
Sexual Revolution, the
Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the
Vietnam War, and other factors led to the
Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal
Democratic Party lines.
San Francisco is a popular tourist destination,[30] known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks including the
Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, and its
Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as
Levi Strauss & Co., Gap
Inc., Salesforce.com,
Dropbox, Reddit,
Square, Inc., Airbnb, Weebly,
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter,
Uber, Mozilla,
Wikimedia Foundation, and
Craigslist. It has several nicknames, including "
The City by the Bay", "Fog
City", "
San Fran", and "
Frisco", as well as older ones like "
The City that Knows How," "
Baghdad by the Bay," and "The
Paris of the West." More
Info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco