Portal:San Francisco Bay Area

WELCOME TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA   BAY AREA CITIES   RECOGNIZED BAY AREA CONTENT The Portal:San Francisco Bay Area Portal California Bay Area county map File:SF Bay area USGS.jpg The San Francisco Bay Area (referred to locally as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, along with smaller urban and rural areas. The Bay Area's nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Home to approximately 7.68 million people, the nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, and commuter rail. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California (after the Greater Los Angeles area), the fifth-largest in the United States, and the 43rd-largest urban area in the world with 8.80 million people. The Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 companies in the United States, after the New York metropolitan area, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The area ranks second in highest density of college graduates, after the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and performs above the state median household income in the 2010 census; it includes the five highest California counties by per capita income and two of the top 25 wealthiest counties in the United States. Based on a 2013 population report from the California Department of Finance, the Bay Area is the only region in California where the rate of people migrating in from other areas in the United States is greater than the rate of those leaving the region, led by Alameda and Contra Costa counties. (more...) Selected article Selected biography Selected city Selected image The Bay Area by year Selected historical image Did you know... <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: px;"> San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds ... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds (pictured), ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water? ... that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge? ... that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco? ... that the title of There There, a 2018 novel about urban Indians in Oakland, California, mirrors Gertrude Stein's quip about the city that "There is no there there"? Previous Did you know... Selected periodic event Quote Selected multimedia file Bay Area regions, geographic features and protected areas Regions File:Map Whole East Bay.jpg East Bay File:CaliforniaSquawRock.png North Bay File:Pacifica.jpeg Peninsula File:Prune Orchard near Santa Clara, California (3655751146).jpg Santa Clara Valley File:The HP garage in Palo Alto, California, April 2009.jpg Silicon Valley File:Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley, California, USA (5985766377).jpg Wine Country File:Point Reyes and Drakes Bay.jpg West Marin Geographic features File:San francisco bay map.jpg San Francisco Bay File:San Pablo Bay-001.jpg San Pablo Bay File:Suisunbay aerial.jpg Suisun Bay File:Alcatraz Island 1, SF, CA, jjron 25.03.2012.jpg Islands of the Bay File:Point Bonita Lighthouse 04.jpg Marin Headlands File:Solanum umbelliferum.jpg Diablo Range File:Plebejus lupini.jpg Berkeley Hills File:Montara Mountain.jpg Santa Cruz Mountains Protected areas File:Cannon Old Post Hospital.jpg Golden Gate Recreation Area File:Humpback tail Fallarones.jpg Farallones Marine Sanctuary File:Water view at Don Edwards San Francisco bay.jpg Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge File:Point Reyes National Seashore above Fata Morgana of sea surface.JPG Point Reyes Seashore File:Mount Tamalpais from Napa Slough (William Marple).jpg Mount Tamalpais State Park File:Quercus lobata.JPG Henry Coe State Park File:Russian Ridge-Wildflowers.jpg Midpeninsula Open Space File:Hershell-Spillman Merry-Go-Round (Berkeley, CA).JPG East Bay Regional Parks Related Portals WikiProject File:GoldenGateBridge-001.jpg You are invited to participate in the San Francisco Bay Area task force, a task force dedicated to developing and improving articles about the San Francisco Bay Area. 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