Portal:San Francisco Bay Area

Main page   Cities   Topics edit   The San Francisco Bay Area Portal The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas. The nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Home to approximately 7.15 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 urban area of San Jose and San Francisco is the 50th largest urban area in the world. The Bay Area is anchored by three major cities. San Francisco is the cultural and financial center of the metropolitan area and Northern California, and is famous for its iconic skyline, steep hills, cable cars and historic streetcars, Fisherman's Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge. It is the second-most densely populated major city (population greater than 200,000) in the United States. The largest city in the Bay Area in land area and population is San Jose, which is located in the South Bay and is part of the world renowned technology hub known as Silicon Valley. Oakland, the third most populous city, is a central hub for the East Bay, major industrial center and contains the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest intermodal container port in the United States. The region's northern counties encompass California's famous Wine Country, home to hundreds of vineyards and wineries while the region's Pacific Ocean coastline hosts numerous beaches. (more...) edit   San Francisco Bay Area categories San Francisco Bay Area | San Francisco Bay San Francisco | San Jose | Oakland | Cities | Historic Places Alameda | Contra Costa | Marin | Napa | San Mateo | Santa Clara | Solano | Sonoma Culture | Economy | Education | Geography | Government | History | Media | | Parks | People | Sports | Transportation edit   Selected article San Francisco Estuary The San Francisco Estuary and delta represents a highly altered ecosystem. The region has been heavily re-engineered to accommodate the needs of water delivery, shipping, agriculture, and most recently, suburban development. These needs have wrought direct changes in the movement of water and the nature of the landscape, and indirect changes have arisen from the introduction of non-native species. New species have altered the architecture of the food web as surely as levees have altered the landscape of islands and channels that form the complex system known as the Delta. (more...) Previously: Hayward Fault Zone Joshua Abraham Norton - Sonoma Mountain - Google edit   Selected picture Tidal flat, afternoon, with power lines paralleling Highway 92 on the approach to the San Mateo – Hayward Bridge, along the San Francisco Bay Trail a short walk from the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center edit   Did you know... ...that Bay Area native Robert D. San Souci was a consultant to Disney Studios when he suggested that they turn the legend of Hua Mulan into a film, released in 1998 as Mulan? edit   Quotes “ I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience. ” ~ Jerry Brown, from the 1999 KPFA radio show "We The People", broadcast from Oakland more quotes from Wikiquote edit   Regions of the Bay Area East Bay North Bay The City Peninsula Silicon Valley Wine Country Suisun Bay Marin Headlands Diablo Range Santa Cruz Mountains edit   Related Portals California Central Valley edit   WikiProjects You are invited to participate in San Francisco Bay Area task force, a task force dedicated to developing and improving articles about the San Francisco Bay Area. edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? List of portals Featured portals