San Francisco je ilu ni Ipinle Kalifornia ni orile-ede Amerika.

City and County of San Francisco
San Francisco from the Marin Headlands, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the foreground
San Francisco from the Marin Headlands, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the foreground
Flag of City and County of San Francisco
Flag
Official seal of City and County of San Francisco
Seal
Nickname(s): 
The City by the Bay
Frisco (deprecated)[1][2][3]
The City That Knows How (antiquated)[4]
Baghdad by the Bay[5]
The Paris of the West[6]
Motto(s): 
Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra
(Spanish for "Gold in Peace, Iron in War")
Location of San Francisco, California
Location of San Francisco, California
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
FoundedJune 29, 1776
IncorporatedApril 16, 1850[7]
Founded byLieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu
Named forSaint Francis of Assisi
Government
 • TypeMayor-Council
 • MayorGavin Newsom (D)
 • Board of Supervisors
 • State AssemblyFiona Ma (D)
Tom Ammiano (D)
 • State SenateMark Leno (D)
Leland Yee (D)
 • U.S. HouseNancy Pelosi (D)
Jackie Speier (D)
Area
 • Consolidated city-county231.92 sq mi (600.7 km2)
 • Land46.7 sq mi (121 km2)
 • Water185.2 sq mi (480 km2)  79.8%
 • Metro
3,524.4 sq mi (9,128 km2)
Elevation
52 ft (16 m)
Highest elevation
925 ft (282 m)
Lowest elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Population
 (2008)[8][9][10]
 • Consolidated city-county808,976
 • Density17,323/sq mi (6,688/km2)
 • Urban
3,228,605
 • Metro
4,203,898
 • Demonym
San Franciscan
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (Pacific Daylight Time)
ZIP Code
94101–94112, 94114–94147, 94150–94170, 94172, 94175, 94177
Area code(s)415
Websitewww.sfgov.org




  1. San Francisco Examiner, April 3, 1918. Don't Call It Frisco. Archived April 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Judge Mogan Rebukes Angeleno for Using Slang in His Petition for Divorce. "No one refers to San Francisco by that title except people from Los Angeles."
  2. Sullivan, James (October 14, 2003). "Frisco, that once-verboten term for the city by the bay, is making a comeback among the young and hip. Herb Caen is spinning at warp speed.". Datebook (San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle): p. D-1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/14/DD67721.DTL&type=travelbayarea. Retrieved June 12, 2008. 
  3. Many tourists refer to San Francisco as "Frisco." However, some locals discourage this. Samuel D. Cohen writes that many credit "Friscophobia" to newspaper columnist Herb Caen, whose first book, published in 1953, was "Don't Call it Frisco" after a 1918 newspaper article of the same name. Caen was considered by many to be the recognized authority on what was, and what was not, beneath the city's dignity, and to him, Frisco was intolerable. Cohen, Sam (September 11, 1997). "Locals Know best: only tourists call it 'Frisco'". Golden Gater Online. San Francisco State University. Archived from the original on November 23, 1997. Retrieved July 13, 2008..  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. San Francisco Public Library (March 29, 2005). "PPIE: The City That Knows How". Amusing America. San Francisco Public Library, Online Exhibitions. Archived from the original on October 18, 2007. Retrieved June 14, 2008. 
  5. Caen, Herb (1949). Baghdad-by-the-Bay. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0891740476. OCLC 31060237. LC F869.S3 C12. 
  6. YouTube (1939). "1939 San Francisco in Color!!!". UnknownWW2InColor. UnknownWW2InColor (Ramano-Archives). Retrieved June 5, 2009. 
  7. "Incorporation Dates of California Cities". Retrieved November 24, 2009. 
  8. "Table 1. Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007" (XLS). US Census Bureau. March 27, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2008. 
  9. "Population up in every Bay Area county in 2008". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications. March 19, 2009. Retrieved March 19, 2009. 
  10. "Table 2. Annual Estimates of the Population of Combined Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007" (XLS). US Census Bureau. March 27, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2008.