East Bay
Lying across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, the East Bay consists of Contra Costa County and Alameda County. It has a unique culture, more laid back and with less tech industry presence than its neighbors to the west. Oakland, the area's largest city…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Staeiou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mactographer, CC BY 2.5.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Oakland and Berkeley.
Oakland
Photo: Simon Carrasco, CC BY 2.0.
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Berkeley
Photo: Bernt Rostad, CC BY 2.0.
Set on sparkling San Francisco Bay, Berkeley will surprise those who recall it as the counter-culture center of the 1960s. Free Speech and flower power are forever in the city "DNA," but Berkeley has evolved into a culinary and cultural travel destination.
Fremont
Photo: Mactographer, CC BY 2.5.
Fremont is a suburban city in the southern part of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the 4th largest city in the Bay Area by population.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Outer East Bay and Inner East Bay.
East Bay
- Type: Region
- Description: eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Category: geographical feature
- Location: Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover East Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“East Bay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شرق الخليج”
- Bulgarian: “Източен залив”
- Catalan: “Badia de l’Est”
- Chinese: “东湾 (旧金山湾区)”
- Chinese: “东湾”
- Chinese: “旧金山湾东湾”
- Chinese: “舊金山東灣”
- Chinese: “舊金山灣東灣”
- Dutch: “East Bay”
- Esperanto: “Oriento de la Golfo”
- French: “East Bay”
- German: “East Bay Area”
- German: “East Bay”
- Hebrew: “איסט ביי”
- Italian: “San Francisco East Bay”
- Japanese: “イーストベイ”
- Korean: “이스트 베이”
- Serbian: “Источни залив”
- Spanish: “Este de la Bahía (área de la Bahía de San Francisco)”
- Spanish: “Este de la Bahia”
- Spanish: “Este de la Bahía”
- Turkish: “Doğu Körfezi”
Bay Area: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into San Francisco, San Jose, Silicon Valley, and Golden Gate.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “East Bay”. Photo: Mactographer, CC BY 2.5.