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The Mission District is a district of 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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  • Type: Suburb with 47,200 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
  • Also known as: “Mission District”, “Mission District, San Francisco”, “The Mission”, and “the Mission lands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mission San Francisco de Asís and Roxie Theater.

Church
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The , also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in . Operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the complex was founded in the 18th century by Spanish Catholic missionaries.

Movie theater
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The , also known as the Roxie Cinema or just The Roxie, is a historic , founded in 1912, at 3117 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. It is a non-profit community arthouse cinema.

Heritage site
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The is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California gold rush, in twenty years its operations exceeded the capacity of the first building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castro-Noe Valley and Bernal Heights.

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

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, just south of the Mission District of , is a cute, eclectic neighborhood that was once very working class, but is becoming quickly gentrified.

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

Mission

Latitude
37.75993° or 37° 45′ 36″ north
Longitude
-122.41914° or 122° 25′ 9″ west
Population
47,200
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
849VQH5J+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 140983158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5373628
Wiki­data ID
Q7469
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mission” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Mission”
  • Bulgarian: “Мишън”
  • Catalan: “Districte Mission”
  • Cebuano: “Mission District”
  • Chinese: “使命区”
  • Chinese: “使命區”
  • Chinese: “教会区”
  • Chinese: “米慎區”
  • Chinese: “舊金山教會區”
  • Dutch: “Mission District”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Misio”
  • Esperanto: “La Misio”
  • Esperanto: “Misio”
  • French: “Mission District”
  • German: “Mission District”
  • Hebrew: “סן פרנסיסקו/רובע מישן”
  • Italian: “Mission District”
  • Japanese: “ミッション・ディストリクト”
  • Japanese: “ミッション地区 (サンフランシスコ)”
  • Japanese: “ミッション地区”
  • Russian: “Мишен-Дистрикт”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de la Misión”
  • Spanish: “Mission District”
  • Turkish: “Mission District”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Мішн”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Mission”. Photo: Tim Bartel, CC BY-SA 2.0.