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[[File:800px-SF From Marin Highlands3.jpg|thumb|left|300px|San Francisco from Marin Headlands]]
 
== Description ==
Founded in 1776 by Spanish missionaries and colonists, '''San Francisco''' (Spanish for Saint Francis), officially the '''City and County of San Francisco''', population 870,000,  is "the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California." (Wikipedia).
 
Founded in 1776 by Spanish missionaries and colonists, '''San Francisco''' (Spanish for Saint Francis), officially the '''City and County of San Francisco''', population 870,000,  is "the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California." (Wikipedia).
 
Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula, and at the "Golden Gate" or narrow mouth of San Francisco Bay, after which the city was named, San Francisco is about 48 square miles (124 km2) in area, the smallest county—and only consolidated city-county—in California.
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  -- adapted from Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco San Francisco]. 
 
'''== Nicknames & Motto''' ==
 
SF;The City; The City by the Bay; The Golden City; Fog City; San Fran, Saint Frank, Frisco (all 3 locally disparaged); The City that Knows How (past); Baghdad by the Bay (past); The Paris of the West (past)
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== References ==
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**San Francisco Indicator Project Geographic Boundaries<br/> &nbsp;[http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=e4927a261ae044959ec4d4932b047ff8 http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=e4927a261ae044959ec4d4932b047ff8].&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
 
 
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*City and County of San Francisco, City Office of the Controller – Office of Economic Analysis.&nbsp;"[http://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/6742-mission_moratorium_final.pdf Potential Effects of Limiting Market-Rate Housing in the Mission]."&nbsp;September 10, 2015.<br/> [http://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/6742-mission_moratorium_final.pdf http://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/6742-mission_moratorium_final.pdf].<br/> &nbsp;
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