San Francisco is a city in the US state of California and the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is the fourth largest city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose. It is also the only city in California that coincides with a county: officially it is called City and County of San Francisco.
The city, population 881,549, is located on the San Francisco Peninsula that separates the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay. The metropolitan area of which San Francisco is the centre consists of the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. With over 7 million inhabitants, it is the fifth-largest conurbation in the United States. Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C.-Baltimore are larger agglomerations.
San Francisco is one of the most popular tourist cities in the world. San Francisco is characterised by its steep hills, cool summers and fog. Symbols of the city include the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Chinatown, the Transamerica Pyramid and cable cars. The gay district of Castro also enjoys international fame.
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