About San Francisco

California

San Francisco (initials SF[23]) (/sn frnssko/, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: [san fransisko]), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula, San Francisco is about 47.9 square miles (124km2)[17] in area, making it the smallest countyand the only consolidated city-county[24]within the state of California. With a density of about 18,581 people per square mile (7,174 people per km2), San Francisco is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City.[25] 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 Stateswith a census-estimated 2016 population of 870,887.[20] 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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