Editing San Francisco (section)

{{Short description|Consolidated city-county in California, United States}}
{{About|the city and county in California}}
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20151023054757/http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_072011/handouts_20110729_q2_ad_finaldraft_splits.zip (refs: 6, 346)<br>
* https://www.nhgis.org/ (refs: 25, 26)<br>
* https://usa.ipums.org/usa/ (refs: 78, 170)<br>
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090201053456/http://www.sfeconomicstrategy.org/site/uploadedfiles/moed/economic_strat/ExecutiveSummary_EconomicPerformanceReview.pdf (refs: 110, 250)<br>
* http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/castro/ (refs: 133, 266)<br>
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| official_name      = City and County of San Francisco
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  | caption1      = [[Financial District, San Francisco|Downtown skyline]] from the [[Marin Headlands]]
  | image2        = Cable car 19 on Hyde Street, July 2023.JPG
  | caption2      = [[San Francisco cable car system|San Francisco cable car]]
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  | caption3      = [[Alcatraz Island]]
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  | caption5      = [[Golden Gate Park]] and [[Lands End (San Francisco)|Lands End]]
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  | song = "[[Theme from San Francisco|Theme from ''San Francisco'']]", "[[I Left My Heart in San Francisco]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/song.html |work=Museum of San Francisco |access-date=June 17, 2020 |title=San Francisco's Official Songs }}</ref>
  | nickname          = [[List of nicknames for San Francisco|See list]]<ref name="TBI20130630">{{cite web|url=https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-frisco-the-history-of-san-francisco-s-nicknames-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-5c14348d49c#.m605gfvq5|title=Don't Call It Frisco: The History of San Francisco's Nicknames|last=Garling|first=Caleb|date=June 30, 2013|work=[[The Bold Italic]]|access-date=June 18, 2016}}</ref>
  | motto              = {{Lang|es|Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra}}<br />({{Langnf|es||Gold in Peace, Iron in War}})
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| subdivision_name1  = [[California]]
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| subdivision_name3  = [[San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward]]
| subdivision_name4  = [[San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area|San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland]]
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| established_date1  = {{Start date and age|April 15, 1850|p=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www6.sfgov.org/index.aspx?page=4|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120316222315/http://www6.sfgov.org/index.aspx?page=4|archive-date = March 16, 2012|title = San Francisco: Government|publisher = SFGov.org|access-date = March 8, 2012|quote = San Francisco was incorporated as a City on April 15th, 1850 by act of the Legislature.}}</ref>
| founder            = [[Juan Bautista de Anza]]<br />[[José Joaquín Moraga]]<br />[[Francisco Palóu]]
| named_for          = [[St. Francis of Assisi]]
| government_type    = [[Mayor–council government|Mayor-council]]
| governing_body     = [[San Francisco Board of Supervisors|Board of Supervisors]]
| leader_title       = [[Mayor of San Francisco|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = [[Daniel Lurie]] ([[California Democratic Party|D]])
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  |4 = [[Joel Engardio]] (D)
  |5 = [[Bilal Mahmood]] (D)
  |6 = [[Matt Dorsey]] (D)
  |7 = [[Myrna Melgar]] (D)
  |8 = [[Rafael Mandelman]] (D)
  |9 = [[Jackie Fielder]] (D)
  |10 = [[Shamann Walton]] (D)
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| population_total   = 873965
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| population_urban   = 3,515,933 (US: [[List of United States urban areas|14th]])
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| population_demonym = San Franciscan<ref>{{cite news|last=Massara|first=Graph|date=February 20, 2018|title=If you're from SF, you're a 'San Franciscan{{sic|.'|hide=y}} But what if you're from Fremont? Berkeley? Livermore?|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Franciscan-Bay-Area-cities-demonyms-12609025.php |work=[[SFGATE]]|location=San Francisco|access-date=July 29, 2023}}</ref>
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| demographics2_title1 = City and county
| demographics2_info1 = $263.1 billion (2023)
| demographics2_title2 = [[Metropolitan statistical area|Metro]]
| demographics2_info2 = $778.9 billion (2023)
| demographics2_title3 = [[Combined statistical area|CSA]]
| demographics2_info3 = $1.397 trillion (2023)
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code]]s<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zip-codes.com/city/ca-san-francisco.asp|title=ZIP Codes for City of San Francisco, CA|publisher=[[2010 United States census]]|via=Zip-Codes.com|date=2010|access-date=March 14, 2021|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030231624/https://www.zip-codes.com/city/ca-san-francisco.asp}}</ref>
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| leader_title2      = [[California State Assembly|Assembly members]]<ref>{{cite web|url = http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_072011/handouts_20110729_q2_ad_finaldraft_splits.zip|title = Communities of Interest – City|publisher = California Citizens Redistricting Commission|access-date = September 23, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151023054757/http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/downloads/meeting_handouts_072011/handouts_20110729_q2_ad_finaldraft_splits.zip|archive-date = October 23, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers|title = Members Assembly|publisher = California State Assembly|access-date = September 23, 2014}}</ref>
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'''San Francisco''',<ref>{{Bulleted list|English: {{IPAc-en|ˌ|s|æ|n|_|f|ɹ|ə|n|ˈ|s|ɪ|s|k|oʊ}} {{respell|SAN|_|frən|SISS|koh}}|Spanish: {{IPA|es|saɱ fɾanˈsisko|}}, {{lit|[[Francis of Assisi|Saint Francis]]}}}}</ref> officially the '''City and County of San Francisco''', is a commercial, [[Financial District, San Francisco|financial]], and [[Culture of San Francisco|cultural]] center of [[Northern California]]. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024,<ref name="Estimate2024"/> San Francisco is the [[List of California cities by population|fourth-most populous city]] in the U.S. state of [[California]] and the [[List of United States cities by population|17th-most populous]] in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of {{convert|46.9|sqmi|km2|abbr=off|sp=us}}<ref name="Census 2010-GCT-PH1-density"/> at the upper end of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] and is the [[County statistics of the United States|fifth-most densely populated U.S. county]]. Among 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 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=IPUMS NHGIS {{!}} National Historical Geographic Information System |url=https://www.nhgis.org |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=nhgis.org}}</ref> San Francisco anchors the [[Metropolitan statistical area#United States|13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S.]], with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger [[San Francisco Bay Area|San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area]], the fifth-largest urban region in the U.S., had a 2023 estimated population of over nine million.

Prior to [[European colonization of the Americas|European settlement]], the modern city proper was inhabited by the [[Yelamu]]. On June 29, 1776, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|settlers from New Spain]] established the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] at the [[Golden Gate]], and the [[Mission San Francisco de Asís]] a few miles away, both named for [[Francis of Assisi]].<ref name="DeAnza-Moraga-Palou">{{cite web|last1=O'Day |first1=Edward F. |date=October 1926 |title=The Founding of San Francisco |url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/founding.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727190828/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/founding.html |archive-date=July 27, 2010 |access-date = November 24, 2024 |work=San Francisco Water |publisher=Spring Valley Water Authority}}</ref> The [[California gold rush]] of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] at the time.<ref name="ipums_nhgis">{{Cite web |title=IPUMS NHGIS |url=https://www.nhgis.org/ |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website= nhgis.org}}</ref> In 1856, San Francisco became a [[consolidated city-county]].<ref name="Coy 1919 409">{{cite book |last=Coy |first=Owen Cochran |title=Guide to the County Archives of California |publisher=California Historical Survey Commission |year=1919 |location=Sacramento, California |page=409}}</ref> After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake and fire]],<ref name="Montagne" /> it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]] nine years later. In [[World War II]], it was a major port of embarkation for [[United States Department of the Navy|naval service]] members shipping out to the [[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II|Pacific Theater]].<ref name="WWII" /> After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]], liberalizing attitudes, the rise of the [[beatnik]] and [[hippie]] countercultures, the [[sexual revolution]], [[opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War]], and other factors led to the [[Summer of Love]] and the [[LGBT rights in the United States|gay rights]] movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal activism]].

San Francisco and the surrounding [[San Francisco Bay Area]] are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences,<ref name="Nature Index 2018 Science cities">{{cite web |title=Top 200 Science cities |url=https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2018-science-cities/tables/overall |access-date=August 17, 2019 |website=Nature Index}}</ref><ref name="Cultural times: the first global map of cultural and creative industries">{{cite web |title=The Global Creative Economy Is Big Business |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000235710 |access-date=August 17, 2019}}</ref> spurred by [[List of colleges and universities in San Francisco|leading universities]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=2022 Best Global Universities Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings |work=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref> [[IT|high-tech]], healthcare, finance, insurance, real estate, and professional services sectors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Regional Data: GDP and Personal Income |url=https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=1 |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=apps.bea.gov}}</ref> {{As of|2020}}, the metropolitan area, with 4.5 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP ($874 billion) and 2nd by GDP per capita ($131,082) across the [[OECD]] countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Metropolitan areas |url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CITIES |access-date=September 17, 2022 |website=stats.oecd.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |date=January 1, 1947 |title=Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average |url=https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL |access-date=June 18, 2022 |work=FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=World Economic Outlook Database, April 2022 |url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2022/April |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=IMF |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $263.1 billion and a GDP per capita of $325,000.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas |url=https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-county-metro-and-other-areas |access-date=2024-12-07 |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis}}</ref> The city is home to [[List of companies based in San Francisco|numerous companies]]—many in the [[Technology company|technology sector]]—including [[Salesforce.com|Salesforce]], [[Uber]], [[Airbnb]], [[OpenAI]], [[Levi Strauss & Co.|Levi's]], [[Gap Inc.|Gap]], [[Dropbox]], and [[Lyft]].

In 2022, San Francisco had more than 1.7 million international visitors and approximately 20 million domestic ones.<ref>[https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/america-s-10-most-visited-cities.html "America's 10 most visited cities"], World Atlas, November 14, 2023</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.sftravel.com/media/press-release/san-francisco-travel-association-announces-2022-results-2023-forecast#:~:text=The%20San%20Francisco%20Travel%20Association%20is%20the%20official%20destination%20marketing,in%202022%20exceeded%20%247.7%20billion |title=San Francisco Travel Association Announces 2022 Results and 2023 Forecast |publisher=San Francisco Travel |date=March 21, 2023 |access-date=December 7, 2023}}</ref> It is known for its steep rolling [[List of hills in San Francisco|hills]] and [[Architecture of San Francisco|eclectic mix of architecture]] across [[San Francisco neighborhoods|varied neighborhoods]]; its [[Chinatown, San Francisco|Chinatown]] and [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission]] districts; mild climate; and landmarks including the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], [[San Francisco cable car system|cable cars]], and [[Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary|Alcatraz]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Top U.S. Destinations for International Visitors |url=http://www.hotel-price-index.com/2013/fall/american-travel-habits/top-locations-for-americans.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327035130/http://www.hotel-price-index.com/2013/fall/american-travel-habits/top-locations-for-americans.html |archive-date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=April 12, 2014 |website=The Hotel Price Index}}</ref> The city is home to educational and cultural institutions such as the [[University of California, San Francisco]], the [[University of San Francisco]], [[San Francisco State University]], the [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]], the [[Legion of Honor (museum)]], the [[de Young Museum]], the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[San Francisco Symphony]], the [[San Francisco Ballet]], the [[San Francisco Opera]], the [[SFJAZZ Center]], and the [[California Academy of Sciences]]. Two [[Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada|major league]] sports teams, the [[San Francisco Giants]] and the [[Golden State Warriors]], play their home games within San Francisco. [[San Francisco International Airport]] (SFO) is one of the world's busiest airports, while [[San Francisco Municipal Railway|a light rail and bus network]], in tandem with the [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] and [[Caltrain]] systems, connects nearly every part of San Francisco with the wider region.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leins |first=Casey |date=April 3, 2019 |title=The 10 Best Cities for Public Transportation |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/10-best-cities-for-transportation/ |access-date=February 7, 2023 |work=USNews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Direct flights from San Francisco (SFO) – FlightConnections |url=https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-san-francisco-sfo |access-date=February 7, 2023 |website=www.flightconnections.com}}</ref>