Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse and extensive metropolitan region that is home to nearly 8 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose.
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Bay Area
- Region with 7,470,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 75 feet (23 metres)
- …is abbreviated as “SF Bay Area”
- Description: metropolitan area in California, United States
- Also known as“Bay Area, CA”“Bay Area, California”“San Francisco Bay Area”“San Francisco Bay Area, CA”“San Francisco Bay Area, California”“San Francisco Bay Region”“San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara”“SF Bay area”“SFBA”“The Bay Area”
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Latitude of center
37.7885° or 37° 47′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-122.3558° or 122° 21′ 21″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bay Area” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة خليج سان فرانسيسكو”
- Arabic: “منطقه خليج سان فرانسيسكو”
- Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկոյի ծովախորշի շրջան”
- Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկոյի ծովածոցի շրջան”
- Asturian: “Área de la Badea de San Francisco”
- Azerbaijani: “San-Fransisko Körfəz Bölgəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “San-Fransisko körfəz sahəsi”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Celuk San Francisco”
- Basque: “San Frantziskoko Badiaren Eremua”
- Bosnian: “Zaljevsko područje San Franciska”
- Bulgarian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Bulgarian: “Район на залива на Сан Франциско”
- Bulgarian: “Район на залива Сан Франциско”
- Bulgarian: “Район на Санфранцискансия залив”
- Bulgarian: “Район на Санфранцисканския залив”
- Bulgarian: “Район на Санфранциския залив”
- Bulgarian: “Района на Санфранциския залив”
- Bulgarian: “Районът на залива на Сан Франциско”
- Bulgarian: “Районът на Сан Франциско”
- Bulgarian: “Районът на Санфранциския залив”
- Catalan: “àrea de la badia de San Francisco”
- Catalan: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کەنداوی سان فرانسیسکۆ”
- Chinese: “三藩市灣區”
- Chinese: “三藩灣區”
- Chinese: “加利福尼亚州圣何塞-旧金山-奥克兰综合统计区”
- Chinese: “旧金山-奥克兰-海沃德都会统计区”
- Chinese: “旧金山湾区”
- Chinese: “灣區”
- Chinese: “舊金山-奧克蘭-海沃德都會統計區”
- Chinese: “舊金山灣區”
- Croatian: “Zaljevsko područje San Francisca”
- Czech: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Danish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Dutch: “Bay Area”
- Dutch: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Dutch: “San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland”
- Esperanto: “Areo de la Golfo de San-Francisko”
- Esperanto: “Golfa Areo”
- Finnish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Finnish: “San Franciscon Bay Area”
- Finnish: “San Franciscon lahden ympäristö”
- Finnish: “The Bay”
- French: “région de la baie de San Francisco”
- French: “Région de la baie de San Francisco”
- French: “Region urbaine de San Francisco”
- French: “Région urbaine de san francisco”
- Gan Chinese: “舊金山灣區”
- German: “Bay Area”
- German: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Hebrew: “אזור מפרץ סן פרנסיסקו”
- Hungarian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Indonesian: “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara”
- Indonesian: “SFBA”
- Indonesian: “The Bay Area”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Teluk San Francisco”
- Irish: “Limistéar Chuan San Francisco”
- Italian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Japanese: “サンフランシスコ・ベイエリア”
- Japanese: “ベイエリア”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 만 지역”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 베이 에리어”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 베이 에어리어”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 베이 에이리어”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 베이에리어”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코베이에어리어”
- Korean: “서가주”
- Korean: “서부 캘리포니아 주”
- Korean: “서부 캘리포니아”
- Korean: “서캘리포니아”
- Korean: “웨스턴 캘리포니아”
- Korean: “웨스턴캘리포니아”
- Korean: “캘리포니아 서부”
- Korean: “캘리포니아 주 서부”
- Latin: “Regio Sinuosa Franciscopolis”
- Latin: “Regio sinus Franciscopolitani”
- Macedonian: “Заливска област на Сан Франциско”
- Macedonian: “Заливска област”
- Malay: “Kawasan Teluk San Francisco”
- Malay: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Malayalam: “സാൻ ഫ്രാൻസിസ്കോ ബേ ഏരിയ”
- Marathi: “बे एरिया”
- Marathi: “सॅन फ्रान्सिस्को बे एरिया”
- Nepali: “सान फ्रान्सिस्को बे एरिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Norwegian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Persian: “بی اریا”
- Persian: “خلیج بی اریا”
- Persian: “منطقه خلیج سان فرانسیسکو”
- Persian: “منطقه خلیج سانفرانسیسکو”
- Persian: “منطقهٔ خلیج سانفرانسیسکو”
- Polish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Portuguese: “Área da baía de São Francisco”
- Portuguese: “Região da baía de São Francisco”
- Romanian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Russian: “Область залива Сан-Франциско”
- Scots: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Serbian: “Zalivska oblast San Franciska”
- Serbian: “заливска област Сан Франциска”
- Serbian: “Заливска област Сан Франциска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Područje Zaljeva San Francisca”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zalivska oblast San Franciska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zaljevska oblast San Francisca”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zaljevsko područje San Francisca”
- Slovak: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Slovenian: “Zalivsko območje San Francisca”
- South Azerbaijani: “سان فرانسیسکو بای آری”
- Spanish: “Área de la Bahía de San Francisco”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont”
- Spanish: “Bay Area”
- Spanish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Swedish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Swedish: “The Bay Area”
- Tamil: “சான் பிரான்சிஸ்கோ விரிகுடாப் பகுதி”
- Thai: “เบย์แอเรีย”
- Thai: “พื้นที่อ่าว”
- Thai: “พื้นที่อ่าวซานฟรานซิสโก”
- Turkish: “San Francisco Bay Area”
- Turkish: “San Francisco Körfez Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Агломерація затоки Сан-Франциско”
- Ukrainian: “Бей Ареа”
- Ukrainian: “Метрополія затоки Сан-Франциско”
- Ukrainian: “Метрополія Затоки”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Франциско (метрополія затоки)”
- Ukrainian: “Територія затоки Сан-Франциско”
- Urdu: “خلیج سان فرانسسکو علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực vịnh Cựu Kim Sơn”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực vịnh San Francisco”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Vịnh San Francisco”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực vịnh Xăng Phăng”
- Vietnamese: “Sânbay”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Vịnh Cựu Kim Sơn”
- Vietnamese: “vùng vịnh San Francisco”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Vịnh San Francisco”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Vịnh Xăng Phăng”
- Welsh: “Ardal Bae San Francisco”
- Western Frisian: “Krite fan de Baai fan San Francisco”
- Wu Chinese: “旧金山湾区”
- Yue Chinese: “三藩市灣區”
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