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The Bay Area consists of nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
The Bay Area is the wealthiest region per capita in the United States, due, primarily, to the economic power engines of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland. The Bay Area city of Pleasanton has the second-highest household income in the country after New Canaan, Connecticut. However, discretionary income is very comparable with the rest of the ...
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. [ 1 ]
Drawbridge (formerly Saline City) [2] is a ghost town [3] with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, next to Station Island, now a part of the city of Fremont, California, United States. It is located on the Union Pacific Railroad 6 miles (10 km) south of downtown Fremont, [2] at an elevation of 7 ...
A view over the estuary from above Coast Guard Island.Alameda is on the left, with Oakland on the right and San Francisco Bay in the distance. The Oakland Estuary is the strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda and the Alameda Island from the East Bay mainland.
This category lists cities (including incorporated towns but not unincorporated communities) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Categorize these cities by county. Also categorize each city in Category:Cities in California, which should include all California cities.
SFC (San Francisco City) Sunset City; The City – used by native San Franciscans and people in the Bay Area [1] The City by the Bay – refers to San Francisco Bay [12] The City of Love – as seen in Cool, Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya [13] and in the lyrics of "San Francisco" by German eurodance group Cascada [14] The City that Knows How ...
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the largest in Northern California and the county seat of Santa Clara County.Once a small farming city, by 1950 San Jose was a magnet for suburban newcomers in new housing developments (1960s to the 1990s) and became a large thriving urban center of Northern California.