Union Square-Financial District
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Transamerica Pyramid
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The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline.
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.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Museum
Photo: Allan Ferguson, CC BY 2.0.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown-North Beach and SoMa.
Chinatown-North Beach
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Chinatown-North Beach 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.
SoMa
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SoMa, 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.
Civic Center-Tenderloin
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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.
Union Square-Financial District
- Description: part of San Francisco, U.S.A.
- Also known as: “Union Square and Financial District”
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.78886° or 37° 47′ 20″ northLongitude
-122.40202° or 122° 24′ 7″ westOpen location code
849VQHQX+G5Wikidata ID
Q14232129
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Hebrew—“Union Square-Financial District” goes by many names.
- German: “Union Square und Financial District”
- Hebrew: “יוניון סקוור-אזור המסחר”
- Hebrew: “סן פרנסיסקו/יוניון סקוור-אזור המסחר”
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