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SoMa

SoMa, short for South of Market, is '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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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
  • Also known as: “SOMA”, “South of Market”, “South of Market, San Francisco”, and “South of the Slot”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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

Museum
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The is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Convention center
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The George R. Moscone Convention Center, popularly known as the , is the largest convention and exhibition complex in , California, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Union Square-Financial District and Civic Center-Tenderloin.

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is an area of Downtown , 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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As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within , 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.

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in 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.

SoMa

Latitude
37.78089° or 37° 46′ 51″ north
Longitude
-122.40095° or 122° 24′ 3″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
849VQHJX+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1281064684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7838987
Wiki­data ID
Q1507644
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Turkish—“SoMa” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Саут ъф Маркет”
  • Cebuano: “South of Market”
  • Chinese: “市场南”
  • Chinese: “市場南”
  • Chinese: “市場街南區”
  • Chinese: “索玛区”
  • Dutch: “South of Market”
  • Esperanto: “Sudo el Merkato-Strato”
  • French: “South of Market”
  • German: “San Francisco/Central East”
  • German: “SoMa”
  • German: “South of Market”
  • Hebrew: “סאות’ אוף מרקט”
  • Hebrew: “סן פרנסיסקו/סומה”
  • Japanese: “サウス・オブ・マーケット (サンフランシスコ)”
  • Japanese: “サウス・オブ・マーケット地区”
  • Persian: “ساوت آو مارکت، سانفرانسیسکو”
  • Persian: “ساوت آو مارکت”
  • Portuguese: “South of Market”
  • Slovenian: “SoMa”
  • Slovenian: “SOMA”
  • Slovenian: “South of Market”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساوت آو مارکت، سان‌فرانسیسکو”
  • Spanish: “South of Market (San Francisco)”
  • Spanish: “South of Market”
  • Turkish: “South of Market”

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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 “SoMa”. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.