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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the , the one-mile-wide strait connecting and the Pacific Ocean in , United States.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: suspension bridge on the San Francisco Bay
  • Also known as: “Golden Gate”, “The bridge that couldn’t be built”, and “The Golden Gate”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lime Point Light and Fort Point Light.

Lighthouse
Photo: Jef Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0.
Lime Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse in , on the northern side of the narrowest part of strait. The lighthouse sits at the base of a steep cliff, very near the north anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge. is situated 1,900 feet north of Golden Gate Bridge.

Historic site
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
is a decommissioned lighthouse built on the third tier of Fort Point, which is now directly beneath the south anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. is situated 3,500 feet south of Golden Gate Bridge.

Islet
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is an islet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marin Headlands and Sea Cliff.

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The are located in southern , in the region of the Bay Area of . Part of the , the offer beaches, hiking, history, and spectacular views of the coast.

Neighborhood
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is an affluent neighborhood located on the West Side of San Francisco. Known for its large houses and ocean views, is one of nine master–planned residence parks in San Francisco; its master plan was developed by landscape architect Mark Daniels. is situated 2 miles south of Golden Gate Bridge.

Neighborhood
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is a small, extremely affluent gated neighborhood in that was the first of the master-planned communities built in the West Side of the city. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Golden Gate Bridge.

Golden Gate Bridge

Latitude
37.82018° or 37° 49′ 13″ north
Longitude
-122.47868° or 122° 28′ 43″ west
Elevation
-89 feet (-27 metres)
Inception
April 19th, 1937
Open location code
849VRGCC+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 370672707
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5352844
Wiki­data ID
Q44440
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Golden Gate Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Golden Gate-brug”
  • Albanian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Albanian: “Golden Gate”
  • Albanian: “Golden Gejt”
  • Arabic: “جسر البوابة الذهبية”
  • Arabic: “جسر البوابه الذهبيه”
  • Arabic: “جسر جولدن جيت”
  • Arabic: “جسر غولدن غيت”
  • Aragonese: “Puent Golden Gate”
  • Armenian: “Ոսկե դարպասներ”
  • Armenian: “Ոսկե Դարպասներ”
  • Arpitan: “Pont du Golden Gate”
  • Asturian: “Golden Gate”
  • Asturian: “Ponte Golden Gate”
  • Azerbaijani: “Golden Gate körpüsü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qolden Qeyt körpüsü”
  • Balinese: “Kreteg Golden Gate”
  • Bashkir: “Алтын Ҡапҡа”
  • Basque: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Basque: “Golden Gate zubia”
  • Belarusian: “Залатыя Вароты”
  • Belarusian: “Мост Залатыя Вароты”
  • Bengali: “গোল্ডেন গেট ব্রিজ”
  • Bosnian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Bosnian: “Golden Gate most”
  • Bosnian: “Most "Golden Gate"”
  • Bulgarian: “Голдън Гейт Бридж”
  • Bulgarian: “Голдън Гейт”
  • Bulgarian: “Мост Голдън Гейт”
  • Burmese: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Burmese: “ဂိုးလ်ဒင်းဂိတ် တံတား”
  • Catalan: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Catalan: “Pont Golden Gate”
  • Central Bikol: “Tulay Golden Gate”
  • Central Kurdish: “پردی دەروازەی زێڕین”
  • Central Kurdish: “پردی گۆڵدن گەیت”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڵدن گەیت بریدج”
  • Chinese: “金門大橋”
  • Chinese: “金門橋”
  • Chinese: “金门大桥”
  • Cornish: “Pons Golden Gate”
  • Cornish: “Pons Yet Owrek”
  • Croatian: “Golden Gate”
  • Czech: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Czech: “most Golden Gate”
  • Czech: “Zlatá brána”
  • Danish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Danish: “Golden Gate broen”
  • Danish: “Golden Gate-broen”
  • Dhivehi: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Dhivehi: “ރަން ދޮރާށި ފާލަން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pırdê Golden Gatei”
  • Dutch: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Dutch: “Golden Gate Brige”
  • Dutch: “Golden Gate brug”
  • Dutch: “Golden Gate-brug”
  • Dutch: “Gouden poort brug”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى البوابه الدهبيه”
  • Esperanto: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Esperanto: “Golden-Gate-Ponto”
  • Esperanto: “Orpordega Ponto”
  • Estonian: “Kuldvärava sild”
  • Faroese: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Faroese: “Golden Gate brúgvin”
  • Faroese: “Golden Gate brúnni”
  • Finnish: “Golden Gate -silta”
  • Finnish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • French: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • French: “pont du Golden Gate”
  • French: “Pont du Golden Gate”
  • Galician: “Ponte Golden Gate”
  • Georgian: “გოლდენ გეიტ ბრიჯი”
  • Georgian: “გოლდენ გეიტი”
  • Georgian: “ოქროს კარიბჭე”
  • German: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • German: “Golden-Gate-Brücke”
  • Greek: “Γέφυρα Γκόλντεν Γκέιτ”
  • Greek: “Γέφυρα της Χρυσής Πύλης”
  • Greek: “Γκόλντεν Γκέιτ”
  • Gujarati: “ગોલ્ડન ગેટ સેતુ”
  • Hebrew: “גשר הזהב”
  • Hebrew: “גשר שער הזהב”
  • Hindi: “गोल्डन गेट सेतु”
  • Hungarian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Hungarian: “Golden Gate híd”
  • Hungarian: “Golden Gate-híd”
  • Hungarian: “Golden Gate”
  • Icelandic: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Icelandic: “Golden gate brúin”
  • Icelandic: “Golden Gate-brúin”
  • Ido: “Ponto Golden Gate”
  • Indonesian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Indonesian: “Jembatan Golden Gate”
  • Irish: “Droichead Geata an Óir”
  • Italian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Italian: “Ponte del Golden Gate”
  • Japanese: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Japanese: “ゴールデン・ゲート・ブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ゴールデン・ゲート橋”
  • Japanese: “ゴールデンゲートブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ゴールデンゲート橋”
  • Japanese: “金門橋”
  • Kabiyè: “Golden Gate kondoloko”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಲ್ಡನ್ ಗೇಟ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್, ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ ಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಲ್ಡನ್ ಗೇಟ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್, ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಲ್ಡನ್ ಗೇಟ್ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್”
  • Kashmiri: “گولڈن گیٹ کٔدٕل”
  • Kazakh: “Алтын қақпа”
  • Korean: “골든 게이트 브리지”
  • Korean: “골든게이트 교”
  • Korean: “골든게이트 브리지”
  • Korean: “골든게이트교”
  • Korean: “골든게이트브리지”
  • Korean: “금문교”
  • Lao: “ຂົວໂກນເດນເກດ”
  • Latin: “Pons Aureae Portae”
  • Latin: “Vicipaedia:Porta eruditionis/Scriptorium/Pons Aureae Portae”
  • Latvian: “Goldengeitas tilts”
  • Latvian: “Zelta vārtu tilts”
  • Latvian: “Zelta Vārtu tilts”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukso Vartų tiltas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Macedonian: “Голден гејт”
  • Malay: “Jambatan Golden Gate”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോൾഡൻ ഗേറ്റ് പാലം”
  • Marathi: “गोल्डन गेट ब्रिज”
  • Mingrelian: “ორქოშ ფარდიკარი (ხინჯი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ორქოშ ფარდიკარი”
  • Mongolian: “Голден Гэйт гүүр”
  • Nepali: “गोल्डेन गेट पुल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “GGB”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Golden Gate-broen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Norwegian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pont del Golden Gate”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gylden Geat Brycg”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੋਲਡਨ ਗੇਟ ਪੁਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Brug di Golden Gate”
  • Persian: “پل گلدن گیت”
  • Persian: “گلدن‌گیت”
  • Polish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Polish: “most Golden Gate”
  • Portuguese: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Portuguese: “Ponte Golden Gate”
  • Pushto: “ګلدن ګیټ پل”
  • Romanian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Romanian: “Podul Golden Gate”
  • Russian: “Голден Гейт”
  • Russian: “Золотые Ворота”
  • Russian: “Мост Золотые ворота”
  • Russian: “Мост Золоты́е Воро́та”
  • Russian: “Мост самоубийц”
  • Scots: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Scots: “Golden Gate Brig”
  • Scots: “Gowden Gate Brig”
  • Serbian: “Golden gate”
  • Serbian: “Golden gejt”
  • Serbian: “Голден гејт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Golden Gate most”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Most Golden Gate”
  • Sicilian: “ponti d’u Golden Gate”
  • Sicilian: “ponti di San Franciscu”
  • Sicilian: “Ponti dû Golden Gate”
  • Sinhala: “ගෝල්ඩන් ගේට් පාලම”
  • Slovak: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Slovak: “Most Golden Gate”
  • Slovenian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Slovenian: “most Golden Gate”
  • Slovenian: “Most Golden Gate”
  • Somali: “Buundada Golden Gate”
  • Spanish: “Puente de Golden Gate”
  • Spanish: “Puente de puerta de oro”
  • Spanish: “Puente de San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “puente Golden Gate”
  • Spanish: “Puente Golden Gate”
  • Spanish: “puerta Dorada”
  • Swahili: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Swedish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Swedish: “Golden gate bron”
  • Swedish: “Golden Gate-bron”
  • Swedish: “Golden Gatebron”
  • Tagalog: “Tulay ng Golden Gate”
  • Tamil: “கோல்டன் கேட் பாலம்”
  • Tamil: “கோல்டன் கேற் பாலம்”
  • Tatar: “Алтын капкалар”
  • Telugu: “గోల్డెన్ గేట్ వంతెన”
  • Thai: “สะพานโกลเดนเกต”
  • Thai: “สะพานโกลเด้นเกท”
  • Turkish: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Turkish: “Golden Gate Köprüsü”
  • Turkish: “Golden Gate”
  • Ukrainian: “Золота Брама”
  • Ukrainian: “Золоті Ворота”
  • Ukrainian: “Міст Золота Брама”
  • Ukrainian: “Міст Золоті ворота”
  • Urdu: “گولڈن گیٹ برج”
  • Uzbek: “Golden gate koʻprigi”
  • Veps: “«Kuldaine verai»-sild”
  • Veps: “Kuldaine Verai”
  • Vietnamese: “Cầu Cổng Vàng”
  • Vietnamese: “Cầu Golden Gate”
  • Vietnamese: “Cầu Kim Môn”
  • Vietnamese: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tulay nga Bulawanon nga Ganghaan”
  • Welsh: “Pont Golden Gate”
  • Western Frisian: “Golden Gate Brêge”
  • Western Frisian: “Golden Gate Bridge”
  • Western Panjabi: “گولڈن گیٹ پل”
  • Wu Chinese: “金门大桥”
  • Yiddish: “גאלדן געיט בריק”
  • Yiddish: “גילדערנער-טויער בריק”
  • Yue Chinese: “金門大橋”

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