San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four New York City boroughs. Among the 92 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2022. Prior to European settlement, the modern city proper was inhabited by the Yelamu, who spoke a language now referred to as Ramaytush Ohlone.

Country: United States
State: California
County: San Francisco
CSA: San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland
Metro: San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward
Mission: June 29, 1776
Incorporated: April 15, 1850
Founded by: Juan Bautista de Anza, José Joaquín Moraga, Francisco Palóu
Named for: St. Francis of Assisi
Type: Strong mayor–council
Body: Board of Supervisors
Mayor: London Breed (D)
Water: 80.00%
City and county: 873,965
Estimate (2022): 808,437
Rank: 39th in North America, 17th in the United States, 4th in California
Urban: 3,515,933 (US: 14th)
Metro: 4,623,264 (US: 13th)
CSA: 9,545,921 (US: 5th)
Demonym(s): San Franciscan
Time zone: PST (UTC–08:00)
Summer (DST): PDT (UTC–07:00)
Area codes: 415/628
FIPS code: 06-67000
GNIS feature IDs: 277593, 2411786
GDP (2022): City—$252.2 billion MSA—$729.1 billion (4th) CSA—$1.318 trillion (3rd)
Website: sf.gov
Twitter profile: sfgov
Facebook profile: SF
Wikidata description: consolidated city and county in California, United States
Wikidata id: Q62
Wikidata label: San Francisco
Wikidata aliases: Array
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