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San Francisco Hotels and Visitor Information
Region: California
State: California
Population: 776,733
Elevation: 63 ft
Area Code(s): 415
Information: Convention & Visitors Bureau, 900 Market St, 94103-2804; phone 415/391-2000
Email: vic1@sfcvb.org Web: www.sfvisitor.org
Area Description:
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California and the 14th-largest in the United States. It is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area, whose population is seven million. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major American city, after New York. The city is famous for its history in progressive social movements.
Cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Transamerica Pyramid--San Francisco is a travelogue of iconic images. Even if you've never been to California, you've seen these seven hills in classic films and TV shows. For a first-time visitor, every sight is new but familiar. Who wouldn't recognize the lantern-strung alleys of Chinatown, the stately Victorian mansions of Pacific Heights or the serpentine twists of Lombard Street? Who hasn't sung the Tony Bennett song? Our photographic memories of San Francisco go back to the Great Earthquake of 1906, and more recently, Loma Prieta. Our cultural mileposts include the leather bars of Castro Street, the Latin taquerias of the Mission District and the incense shops of Haight-Ashbury (though the flower children sport more piercings and tattoos these days).
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