Union Square
Union Square is a neighborhood in San Francisco, Bay Area, California. Union Square is situated nearby to the quarter Tenderloin, as well as near the neighborhood Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District.Places of Interest
Highlights include Union Square Park and Union Square/Market Street station.
Union Square/Market Street station
Railway station
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Union Square/Market Street station is an underground Muni Metro light rail station located adjacent to the southeast corner of Union Square in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Square-Financial District and Tenderloin.
Union Square-Financial District
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Union Square-Financial District is an area of Downtown San Francisco, made up of two neighborhoods: the bustling shopping and theater district surrounding Union Square, and the central business district where Market Street meets the bay.
Tenderloin
Quarter
The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest.
Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District
Neighborhood
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District is a historic district located in downtown San Francisco, California, in an area that sits between the Nob Hill and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
Union Square
- Type: Neighborhood
- Also known as: “Downtown”
- Category: locality
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.78751° or 37° 47′ 15″ northLongitude
-122.40716° or 122° 24′ 26″ westElevation
141 feet (43 metres)Open location code
849VQHQV+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 4609282251OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
6947914
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Union Square” goes by many names.
- French: “Union Square”
- German: “Union Square”
- Spanish: “Plaza Unión”
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