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California
San Mateo

Foster City

Foster City is a quiet suburban city on the in the Bay Area of . Primarily residential and lacking in a downtown, it also has a couple of large office parks and several large employers including Gilead, Visa, and Sony.
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  • Type: Town with 30,600 residents
  • Description: city in San Mateo County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Foster City”, “Foster City, CA”, and “Foster City, California”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park and Brewer Island.

Park
Photo: Fastily, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a recreational city park, located in Foster City, California and run by the city government and local citizens. Originally called "Central Park", the park was renamed in 1979 in honor and memory of Congressman Leo J.

Island
is an island in the , in . Originally owned by W. P. A. Brewer, for over one hundred years it was used for hay farming.

School
is a K–8 school district in that serves the and Redwood Shores areas. The district's schools and their principals include:…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Redwood Shores.

Hamlet
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a waterfront community in , along the western shore of on the in . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Foster City.

Foster City

Latitude
37.56° or 37° 33′ 36″ north
Longitude
-122.2689° or 122° 16′ 8″ west
Population
30,600
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US FCI
Open location code
849VHP6J+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1696924412
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5350159
Wiki­data ID
Q988691
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Foster City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فوستر سيتي، كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “فوستير سيتي”
  • Basque: “Foster City”
  • Bengali: “ফোস্টার শহর”
  • Bulgarian: “Фостър Сити”
  • Catalan: “Foster City”
  • Cebuano: “Foster City”
  • Chechen: “Фостер-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Foster City”
  • Chinese: “福斯特城”
  • Croatian: “Foster City”
  • Czech: “Foster City”
  • Danish: “Foster City”
  • Dutch: “Foster City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فوستر سيتى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فوستير سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Foster City”
  • Finnish: “Foster City”
  • French: “Foster City”
  • Georgian: “ფოსტერ-სიტი”
  • German: “Foster City”
  • Gilaki: “فاستر سيتي”
  • Greek: “Φόστερ Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “ફોસ્ટર શહેર”
  • Haitian: “Foster City, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Foster City”
  • Hebrew: “פוסטר סיטי”
  • Hindi: “फोस्टर सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Foster City”
  • Indonesian: “Foster City”
  • Irish: “Foster City”
  • Italian: “Foster City”
  • Japanese: “フォスターシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಸ್ಟರ್ ಸಿಟಿ”
  • Korean: “포스터시티”
  • Ladin: “Foster City”
  • Latvian: “Foster-Siti”
  • Lithuanian: “Foster Sitis”
  • Malagasy: “Foster City, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Foster City”
  • Malay: “Foster City”
  • Marathi: “फॉस्टर शहर”
  • Mazanderani: “فوستر سیتی (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “فوستر سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Foster City”
  • Newari: “फस्टर सिटी, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “फस्टर सिटी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Foster City”
  • Norwegian: “Foster City”
  • Pampanga: “Foster City, California”
  • Pampanga: “Foster City”
  • Persian: “فوستر سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “فوستر سیتی”
  • Polish: “Foster City”
  • Portuguese: “Foster City”
  • Russian: “Фостер-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Foster City”
  • Serbian: “Foster Siti”
  • Serbian: “Фостер Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Foster City, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Foster City”
  • Sinhala: “ෆොස්ටර් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Foster City”
  • Slovenian: “Foster City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فوزتر سیتی، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Foster City”
  • Spanish: “Foster City (California)”
  • Spanish: “Foster City”
  • Swedish: “Foster City, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Foster City”
  • Tagalog: “Foster City, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Foster”
  • Tamil: “போஸ்டர் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Фостер-Сити”
  • Telugu: “ఫోస్టర్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “ฟอสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Foster City, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Foster City”
  • Ukrainian: “Фостер-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “فوسٹر سٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “فوسٹر شہر، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Foster”
  • Volapük: “Foster City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Foster City, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Foster City”
  • Welsh: “Foster City”
  • “Foster City”

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