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San Francisco

The centerpiece of the Bay Area, San Francisco is one of the most visited cities in the world, and with good reason. The cultural center of northern , San Francisco is renowned for its mixture of scenic beauty and unique culture that makes it one of the most vibrant and desirable cities in the nation, if not the world.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Golden Gate and Chinatown-North Beach.

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With some of the most beautiful scenery and intact natural environments in the city, the area is the spectacular northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula.

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in San Francisco combines two adjoining neighbors, both of which are among the city's most popular immigrant neighborhoods. Culturally and aesthetically, they could not be more different yet their streets mesh seamlessly together.

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As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within San Francisco, housing many important civic institutions. Aside from its official duties, it also moonlights as a cultural center with many fine museums, theaters, opera houses, and symphony halls located here.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Fisherman’s Wharf and The Avenues.

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San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.

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Lush Golden Gate Park, foggy Sunset, hilly Richmond, and the steep cliffs of Lands End make up of western San Francisco. A mostly residential area, this is where you will find one of the most ethnically-diverse populations of the city, San…

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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.

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, short for South of Market, is San Francisco's urban renewal district and an extension of downtown San Francisco, with brand new condominiums, office buildings, and a thriving club scene, the result of real estate speculation and the Bay Area's technology sector.

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The District is a district of San Francisco noted for its ethnic diversity, in particular the neighborhood's large Hispanic community. Though the district has gentrified and is among the more expensive areas for real estate in the city, many urban…

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The is a district of San Francisco running along Street and the famous center of San Francisco's hippie community, with a multitude of eclectic stores, coffee shops, and art that reflects this fact.

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Atop the hills overlooking the bay and bustling downtown San Francisco are two adjacent neighborhoods famed for their wealth, panoramic views, and the historic cable cars which still climb the steep streets of the area.

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A mostly residential area of San Francisco, stretches west from downtown's area to Arguello Boulevard north of the Panhandle parkway.

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Southwestern San Francisco is made up of several hilly neighborhoods that include some of the city's highest peaks, beautiful parkland, and tranquil neighborhoods tucked in the hillsides, where you'll find spectacular views and quiet parks.

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The colorful Castro is the famous gay center of San Francisco, a vibrant and historic neighborhood full of businesses geared towards the city's LGBT community.

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is made up of several mostly residential neighborhoods of San Francisco bounded on the north and west by I-280, the 101 highway, and 16th Street, the east by the San Francisco Bay, and on the south by the city limits.

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, just south of the of San Francisco, is a cute, eclectic neighborhood that was once very working class, but is becoming quickly gentrified.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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The is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline.

Museum
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The is a modern and contemporary art and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, . 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.

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is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from east to The Embarcadero.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chinatown and Noe Valley.

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The , centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest in and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside .

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is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California. It is named for Don José de Jesús Noé, noted 19th-century Californio statesman and ranchero, who owned much of the area and served as mayor.

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The is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, on the West Side of the city. Developed initially in the late 19th century.

San Francisco

Latitude
37.7792° or 37° 46′ 45″ north
Longitude
-122.4193° or 122° 25′ 10″ west
Population
874,000
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Abbreviation
“SF”
IATA airport code
SFO
United Nations Location Code
US SFO
Open location code
849VQHHJ+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26819236
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5391959
Wiki­data ID
Q62
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“San Francisco” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “San Francisco”
  • Albanian: “San Francisco”
  • Albanian: “San Francisko”
  • Amharic: “ሳን ፍራንሲስኰ”
  • Arabic: “سان فرانسيسكو”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة سان فرانسيسكو، كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه سان فرانسيسكو، كاليفورنيا”
  • Aragonese: “San Francisco”
  • Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկո”
  • Arpitan: “San Francisco”
  • Asturian: “Frisco”
  • Asturian: “San Francisco”
  • Asturian: “The Golden City”
  • Azerbaijani: “San Fransisko”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Fransisko”
  • Balinese: “San Francisco”
  • Bambara: “San Francisco”
  • Bashkir: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Basque: “San Francisco (Kalifornia)”
  • Basque: “San Frantzisko (Kalifornia)”
  • Basque: “San Frantzisko”
  • Bavarian: “San Francisco”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Францыска”
  • Bengali: “সান ফ্রান্সিস্কো”
  • Bengali: “সানফ্রান্সিসকো”
  • Bhojpuri: “सान फ्रान्सिस्को”
  • Bhojpuri: “सैन फ्रांसिस्को”
  • Bhojpuri: “सैन फ़्रांसिस्को”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান ফ্রান্সিসকো কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান ফ্রান্সিসকো কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “San Francisco”
  • Breton: “San Francisco”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Франциско”
  • Burmese: “ဆန်ဖရန်စစ္စကိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Frisco”
  • Catalan: “San Francisco”
  • Cebuano: “San Francisco”
  • Central Kanuri: “San Francisco”
  • Central Kurdish: “سان فرانسیسکۆ”
  • Chavacano: “San Francisco”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Cheyenne: “San Francisco”
  • Chinese: “Kū-kim-soaⁿ”
  • Chinese: “三藩市”
  • Chinese: “圣佛朗西斯科”
  • Chinese: “圣弗兰西斯科”
  • Chinese: “圣弗朗西斯科”
  • Chinese: “旧金山”
  • Chinese: “旧金山市”
  • Chinese: “聖佛朗西斯科”
  • Chinese: “聖弗朗西斯科”
  • Chinese: “聖弗蘭西斯科”
  • Chinese: “舊金山”
  • Chinese: “舊金山市”
  • Chuvash: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Cornish: “San Francisco”
  • Corsican: “San Francisco”
  • Crimean Tatar: “San Frantsisko”
  • Croatian: “San Francisco, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “San Francisco”
  • Czech: “San Francisco”
  • Dagbani: “San Francisco”
  • Danish: “San Francisco”
  • Dimli (individual language): “San Francisco”
  • Dotyali: “सान फ्रान्सिस्को”
  • Dutch: “San Francisco”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان فرانسيسكو”
  • Esperanto: “San Francisco”
  • Esperanto: “San-Francisko”
  • Esperanto: “Sanfrancisko”
  • Estonian: “San Francisco”
  • Extremaduran: “Frisco”
  • Extremaduran: “San Franciscu”
  • Extremaduran: “SF”
  • Extremaduran: “The Golden City”
  • Faroese: “San Francisco”
  • Fijian: “San Francisco”
  • Finnish: “San Francisco”
  • French: “City and County of San Francisco”
  • French: “Frisco”
  • French: “San Fran”
  • French: “San Francisco”
  • French: “SF”
  • French: “The City by the Bay”
  • French: “The Golden City”
  • Galician: “Cidade de San Francisco”
  • Galician: “San Fran”
  • Galician: “San Francisco”
  • Gan Chinese: “舊金山”
  • Georgian: “სან-ფრანცისკო”
  • German: “San Francisco”
  • Gilaki: “سان فرانسيسکؤ”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Φραγκίσκος”
  • Greek: “Η χρυσή πόλη”
  • Greek: “Σαν Φραν”
  • Greek: “Σαν Φρανσίσκο”
  • Guarani: “San Francisco”
  • Gujarati: “સાન ફ્રાન્સિસ્કો”
  • Gujarati: “સેનફ્રાન્સિસ્કો”
  • Haitian: “San Francisco, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “San Francisco”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khiu-kîm-sân”
  • Hausa: “San Francisco”
  • Hawaiian: “Kapalakiko”
  • Hebrew: “סאן פרנסיסקו”
  • Hebrew: “סן פרנסיסקו”
  • Hindi: “सैन फ्रांसिस्को”
  • Hindi: “सैन फ़्रांसिस्को”
  • Hungarian: “San Francisco”
  • Icelandic: “San Francisco”
  • Ido: “San Francisco”
  • Iloko: “San Francisco”
  • Inari Sami: “San Francisco”
  • Indonesian: “Kota dan Kabupaten San Francisco”
  • Indonesian: “Kota di tepi Teluk”
  • Indonesian: “Paris dari Barat”
  • Indonesian: “San Francisco”
  • Ingush: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Interlingua: “San Francisco”
  • Interlingue: “San Francisco”
  • Irish: “San Francisco”
  • Italian: “San Francisco”
  • Japanese: “サン・フランシスコ”
  • Japanese: “サンフランシスコ”
  • Japanese: “サンフランシスコ市”
  • Japanese: “桑港”
  • Javanese: “San Francisco”
  • Kabiyè: “Sanfransiskoo”
  • Kabyle: “San Francisco”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾನ್ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ‍ಫ್ರಾನ್‌ಸಿಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ಕೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “San Francisco”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “San-Francisko”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Kashmiri: “سین فرٛانٛسِکو”
  • Kazakh: “Алтын қала”
  • Kazakh: “Сан Франсиско”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Франциско қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Khmer: “សាន់ហ្វ្រាន់ស៊ីស្កូ”
  • Kikuyu: “San Francisco”
  • Kirghiz: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Korean: “샌프란”
  • Korean: “샌프란시스코”
  • Kurdish: “San Francisco”
  • Ladin: “San Francisco”
  • Ladino: “San Francisco”
  • Ladino: “San Fransisko”
  • Lao: “ຊານຟຣານຊິສໂກ”
  • Latin: “Franciscopolis”
  • Latvian: “Sanfrancisko”
  • Limburgan: “San Francisco”
  • Lingala: “San Francisco”
  • Literary Chinese: “舊金山”
  • Lithuanian: “San Fransiskas”
  • Lombard: “San Francisco”
  • Low German: “San Francisco”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Francisco”
  • Macedonian: “Сан Франциско”
  • Malagasy: “San Francisco”
  • Malay: “San Francisco”
  • Malayalam: “സാൻ ഫ്രാൻസിസ്കോ”
  • Maltese: “San Francisco”
  • Manx: “San Francisco”
  • Maori: “Hana Panahiko”
  • Maori: “Hana Parahiko”
  • Maori: “Hana Paraniko”
  • Maori: “San Francisco”
  • Marathi: “सॅन फ्रान्सिस्को”
  • Mazanderani: “سان فرانسیسکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gô-gĭng-săng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Francisco”
  • Mingrelian: “სან-ფრანცისკო”
  • Moksha: “Сан Франциска”
  • Mongolian: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Nauru: “San Francisco”
  • Navajo: “Naʼníʼá Hóneezí”
  • Nepali: “सान फ्रान्सिस्को”
  • Newari: “स्यान फ्रान्सिस्को (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “स्यान फ्रान्सिस्को, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्यान फ्रान्सिस्को”
  • Northern Frisian: “San Francisco”
  • Northern Luri: “سان‌ فرانسیسکو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Francisco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Francisco”
  • Norwegian: “San Francisco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “San Francisco”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “San Francisco”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Francisburg”
  • Ossetian: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Pampanga: “San Francisco, California”
  • Pampanga: “San Francisco”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸਿਸਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੈਨ ਫਰਾਂਸਿਸਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੈਨ ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸਿਸਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “San Francisco, California”
  • Papiamento: “San Francisco”
  • Pennsylvania German: “San Francisco”
  • Persian: “سان فرانسیسکو”
  • Picard: “San Francisco”
  • Piemontese: “San Francisco”
  • Polish: “San Francisco”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade e Condado de São Francisco”
  • Portuguese: “San Francisco”
  • Portuguese: “São Francisco”
  • Pushto: “سان فرانسسکو”
  • Quechua: “San Francisco”
  • Romanian: “San Francisco”
  • Romanian: “Сан Франциско”
  • Russian: “Сан-Франциско, Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱱ ᱯᱷᱨᱟᱱᱥᱤᱥᱠᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “San Francisco”
  • Saterfriesisch: “San Francisco”
  • Scots: “San Francisco”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “San Francisco”
  • Serbian: “Сан Франциско”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Francisco”
  • Sicilian: “San Franciscu”
  • Silesian: “San Francisco”
  • Sinhala: “සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ, කැලිෆෝනියා”
  • Sinhala: “සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ”
  • Slovak: “San Francisco”
  • Slovenian: “San Francisco”
  • Somali: “San Fransisko”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان فرانسیسکو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانفرانسیسکو”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad y Condado de San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad De La Bahía”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Dorada”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Junto a la Bahía”
  • Spanish: “París del Oeste”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco (California)”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco CA”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “SF”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵔⵉⵙⴽⵓ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⴰⵏ ⴼⵔⴰⵏ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⴰⵏ ⴼⵔⴰⵏⵙⵉⵙⴽⵓ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⴷⵉⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⵡⵓⵔⵖⵜ”
  • Swahili: “San Francisco”
  • Swedish: “San Francisco, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “San Francisco”
  • Swedish: “SF”
  • Swedish: “SFO”
  • Swiss German: “San Francisco”
  • Tachelhit: “San Francisco”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng San Francisco”
  • Tagalog: “San Francisco, California”
  • Tagalog: “San Francisco”
  • Tahitian: “San Francisco”
  • Tajik: “Сан Франсиско”
  • Tajik: “Сан-Франсиско”
  • Talysh: “San Fransisko”
  • Tamil: “சான் ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கோ”
  • Tamil: “சான் பிரான்சிசுக்கோ”
  • Tamil: “சான் பிரான்சிஸ்கோ”
  • Tamil: “சான் பிரான்ஸிஸ்கோ”
  • Tamil: “ஸேன் ஃப்ரான்ஸிஸ்கோ”
  • Tatar: “San-Frantsisko”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Telugu: “శాన్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్కో”
  • Telugu: “సాన్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్కో”
  • Thai: “ซานฟรานซิสโก”
  • Tibetan: “སན་ཧྥུ་རན་སིས་ཁོ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “San Francisco”
  • Turkish: “San Francisco, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “San Francisco, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “San Francisco”
  • Turkmen: “San-Fransisko”
  • Twi: “San Francisco”
  • Udmurt: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Uighur: “San Fransisko”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Франціско”
  • Urdu: “سان فرانسسکو”
  • Uzbek: “San Francisco”
  • Uzbek: “San Fransisko”
  • Venetian: “San Francisco”
  • Veps: “San Francisko”
  • Vietnamese: “Cựu Kim Sơn, Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “Cựu Kim Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Cựu-kim-sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “San Francisco, Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “San Francisco, California”
  • Vietnamese: “San Francisco”
  • Vietnamese: “Xăng Phăng, Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “Xăng Phăng”
  • Vietnamese: “Xăng-phăng”
  • Volapük: “San Francisco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Francisco”
  • Welsh: “San Francisco”
  • Western Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանսիսքօ”
  • Western Frisian: “San Francisco”
  • Western Frisian: “San Fransisko”
  • Western Mari: “Сан-Франциско”
  • Western Panjabi: “سان فرانسسکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “旧金山”
  • Wu Chinese: “舊金山”
  • Yakut: “Сан Франсиско”
  • Yiddish: “סאן פראנציסקא”
  • Yiddish: “סאַן־פֿראַנציסקאָ”
  • Yoruba: “San Francisco”
  • Yue Chinese: “三藩市”
  • Yue Chinese: “舊金山大埠”
  • Zeeuws: “San Francisco”
  • “ma tomo Sanpansiko”
  • “San Francisco”

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