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San Rafael

Historically home to one of 's original Spanish missions, San Rafael is now a mid-sized Bay Area commuter town with beautiful hills, peaceful nature, interesting architecture, and a bustling downtown area centered around 4th Street.
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  • Type: City with 58,700 residents
  • Description: city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States of America
  • Also known as: “San Rafael, CA” and “San Rafael, California”
  • Postal codes: 94901, 94903, 94912, 94913, and 94915

Places of Interest

Highlights include Marin County Civic Center and Mission San Rafael Arcangel.

Public building
Photo: Fizbin, Public domain.
The , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of , , United States.

Church
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mission San Rafael Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Rafael, California. The original mission was founded in 1817 as an asistencia of to serve as a hospital to treat sick and injured indigenous people, making it Alta California's first sanitarium.

Bus station
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The San Rafael Transportation Center is an intermodal transportation center located in downtown San Rafael, California. It is the primary transfer point for Marin Transit and regional bus operators, and a commuter rail station on the Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit system.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Anselmo and Fairfax.

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is in in the Bay Area of . It's bordered on the east side by San Rafael, and the west side by .

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is a cute little town nestled in the hills of in the Bay Area of . Though small, it's surprisingly lively and has kept its historic charm.

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The "twin cities" of are a pair of towns in in the San Francisco Bay Area of . Larkspur is the main gateway to Marin by ferry, while Corte Madera is known for upscale shopping.

San Rafael

Latitude
37.9748° or 37° 58′ 29″ north
Longitude
-122.5317° or 122° 31′ 54″ west
Population
58,700
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
IATA airport code
SRF
United Nations Location Code
US SRF
Open location code
849VXFF9+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150964497
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5392567
Wiki­data ID
Q631915
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“San Rafael” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سان رافاييل”
  • Armenian: “Սան Ռաֆայել”
  • Armenian: “Սան Ռաֆել”
  • Azerbaijani: “San Rafel”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Rafel”
  • Basque: “San Rafael”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Рафел”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Рафаел”
  • Catalan: “San Rafael”
  • Cebuano: “San Rafael”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Рафаель”
  • Chinese: “San Rafael”
  • Chinese: “圣拉菲尔”
  • Chinese: “聖拉斐”
  • Croatian: “San Rafael”
  • Czech: “San Rafael”
  • Dagbani: “San Rafael”
  • Danish: “San Rafael”
  • Dutch: “San Rafael”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان رافائيل”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان رافاييل”
  • Esperanto: “San Rafael”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Rafaelo”
  • Estonian: “San Rafael”
  • Finnish: “San Rafael, Kalifornia”
  • Finnish: “San Rafael”
  • French: “San Rafael”
  • German: “San Rafael”
  • Gilaki: “سن رافائل”
  • Haitian: “San Rafael, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “San Rafael”
  • Hebrew: “סן רפאל”
  • Hungarian: “San Rafael”
  • Iloko: “San Rafael, California”
  • Iloko: “San Rafael”
  • Irish: “San Rafael”
  • Italian: “San Rafael”
  • Japanese: “サンラフェル”
  • Korean: “산라파엘”
  • Korean: “샌러펠”
  • Ladin: “San Rafael”
  • Low German: “San Rafael”
  • Malagasy: “San Rafael, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “San Rafael”
  • Malayalam: “സാൻ റഫായെൽ”
  • Mazanderani: “سن رافائل (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سن رافائل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Rafael”
  • Newari: “स्यान राफेल, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्यान राफेल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Rafael”
  • Norwegian: “San Rafael”
  • Pampanga: “San Rafael, California”
  • Pampanga: “San Rafael”
  • Persian: “سان رافائل”
  • Persian: “سن رافائل، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “سن رافائل”
  • Polish: “San Rafael”
  • Portuguese: “São Rafael”
  • Russian: “Сан-Рафел”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “San Rafael”
  • Serbian: “Сан Рафел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Rafael, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Rafael”
  • Silesian: “San Rafael”
  • Slovak: “San Rafael”
  • Slovenian: “San Rafael”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان رافائل، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “San Rafael (California)”
  • Spanish: “San Rafael”
  • Swedish: “San Rafael, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “San Rafael”
  • Tagalog: “San Rafael, California”
  • Tagalog: “San Rafael”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Рафаель”
  • Turkish: “San Rafael, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “San Rafael”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Рафаель”
  • Urdu: “سان رافیل، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “San Rafael”
  • Volapük: “San Rafael”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Rafael, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Rafael”
  • Welsh: “San Rafael”
  • “San Rafael”
  • “San Rafael, California”

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