Bay Area

Extracted Attributes

• Governance

  101 municipalities, 9 counties, complex local and regional jurisdictions

• Median Age

  Third-oldest among US metropolitan areas, fastest-aging

• Region Type

  Metropolitan region, region of California

• Major Cities

  Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose

• Demographic Trends

  Aging population, declining birth rate

• Geographical Center

  San Francisco Bay

• Official Definition

  Nine counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma

• Population (Bay Area)

  Approximately 7.52 million people

• Cultural Characteristics

  Center for progressive politics, cultural movements, arts, music, strong biking culture

• Economic Characteristics

  Renowned for technology industry, finance, high GDP (over $700 billion in 2018), third-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the US (2018)

• Ecological Characteristics

  San Francisco Bay is sensitive habitat, coast redwood forests, prone to earthquakes (six major faults)

• Largest City (2023 population)

  San Jose (969,655 people)

• Population (Combined Statistical Area, 13 counties)

  Over 9 million people

Timeline

• Earliest archaeological evidence of human settlements in the Bay Area. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  8000 BC

• Earliest Spanish exploration of the Bay Area took place. (Source: wikipedia)

  1769-01-01

• Beginning in the 1770s, the Bay Area became the remote northernmost outpost of the vast Spanish empire in the Americas, leading to the establishment of Spanish missions and the rapid disappearance of the traditional indigenous way of life. (Source: web_search_results)

  1770-01-01

• Mexican government controlled the area from 1821 until 1848. (Source: wikipedia)

  1821-01-01

• James W. Marshall discovered gold in nearby mountains, resulting in explosive immigration to the area and the precipitous decline of the Native population. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded the area from Mexican to U.S. control. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  1848-01-01

• California was admitted as the 31st state. (Source: wikipedia)

  1850-01-01

• A major earthquake and fire leveled much of San Francisco. (Source: wikipedia)

  1906-01-01

• During World War II, the Bay Area played a major role in America's war effort, with the San Francisco Port of Embarkation acting as a primary embarkation point for American forces. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  1939-09-01

• Post-war, the Bay Area experienced large growth in the financial and technology industries, creating a robust economy and establishing itself as a hotbed of progressive politics and cultural movements. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  1945-09-02

• The Bay Area's economy had a gross domestic product of over $700 billion and was home to the third-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. (Source: wikipedia)

  2018-01-01

• San Jose's population reached 969,655, making it the area's largest city. (Source: summary, wikipedia)

  2023-01-01

• California Forever, backed by Silicon Valley investors, detailed an ambitious plan to build a new American city in Solano County, aiming to address California's housing crisis and foster high-tech manufacturing and shipbuilding. (Source: summary, related_documents)

  2023-01-01

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco. Other definitions may be either smaller or larger, and may include neighboring counties which are not officially part of the San Francisco Bay Area, such as the Central Coast counties of Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey, or the Central Valley counties of San Joaquin, Merced, and Stanislaus. The Bay Area is known for its natural beauty, prominent universities, technology companies, and affluence. The Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a complex multimodal transportation network. The earliest archaeological evidence of human settlements in the Bay Area dates back to 8000–10,000 BC. The oral tradition of the Ohlone and Miwok people suggests they have been living in the Bay Area for several hundreds if not thousands of years. The Spanish empire claimed the area beginning in the early period of Spanish colonization of the Americas. The earliest Spanish exploration of the Bay Area took place in 1769. The Mexican government controlled the area from 1821 until the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Also in 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in nearby mountains, resulting in explosive immigration to the area and the precipitous decline of the Native population. The California gold rush brought rapid growth to San Francisco. California was admitted as the 31st state in 1850. A major earthquake and fire leveled much of San Francisco in 1906. During World War II, the Bay Area played a major role in America's war effort in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, with the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, of which Fort Mason was one of 14 installations and location of the headquarters, acting as a primary embarkation point for American forces. Since then, the Bay Area has experienced numerous political, cultural, and artistic movements, developing unique local genres in music and art and establishing itself as a hotbed of progressive politics. The postwar Bay Area saw large growth in the financial and technology industries, creating an economy with a gross domestic product of over $700 billion. In 2018 it was home to the third-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. The Bay Area is home to approximately 7.52 million people. The larger federal classification, the combined statistical area of the region which includes 13 counties, is the second-largest in California—after the Greater Los Angeles area—and the fifth-largest in the United States, with over 9 million people. The Bay Area's population is ethnically diverse: roughly three-fifths of the region's residents are Hispanic/Latino, Asian, African/Black, or Pacific Islander, all of whom have a significant presence throughout the region. Most of the remaining two-fifths of the population is non-Hispanic White American. The most populous cities of the Bay Area are Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, the latter of which had a population of 969,655 in 2023, making San Jose the area's largest city and the 13th-most populous in the United States. The San Francisco Bay Area's population has the third-oldest median age, following two Florida metros; and it is the fastest-aging of any metropolitan area in the U.S., described as a demographic "doom loop". Despite its urban character, San Francisco Bay is one of California's most ecologically sensitive habitats, providing important ecosystem services such as filtering the pollutants and sediments from rivers and supporting a number of endangered species. In addition, the Bay Area is known for its stands of coast redwoods, many of which are protected in state and county parks. The region is additionally known for the complexity of its landforms, the result of millions of years of tectonic plate movements. Because the Bay Area is crossed by six major earthquake faults, the region is particularly exposed to hazards presented by large earthquakes. The climate is temperate and conducive to outdoor recreational and athletic activities such as hiking, running, and cycling. The Bay Area is host to five professional sports teams and is a cultural center for music, theater, and the arts. It is also host to numerous higher education institutions, including research universities such as the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, the latter known for helping to create the high tech center called Silicon Valley. Home to 101 municipalities and 9 counties, governance in the Bay Area involves numerous local and regional jurisdictions, often with broad and overlapping responsibilities.

Web Search Results

• San Francisco Bay Area

  The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco. Other definitions may be either [...] The Bay Area is host to five professional sports teams and is a cultural center for music, theater, and the arts. It is also host to numerous higher education institutions, including research universities such as the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, the latter known for helping to create the high tech center called Silicon Valley. Home to 101 municipalities and 9 counties, governance in the Bay Area involves numerous local and regional jurisdictions, often with broad [...] The Bay Area is home to approximately 7.52 million people. The larger federal classification, the combined statistical area of the region which includes 13 counties, is the second-largest in California—after the Greater Los Angeles area—and the fifth-largest in the United States, with over 9 million people. The Bay Area's population is ethnically diverse: roughly three-fifths of the region's residents are Hispanic/Latino, Asian, African/Black, or Pacific Islander, all of whom have a significant

• Bay Area – Travel guide at Wikivoyage

  Although it doesn't have any firm boundaries, the Bay Area covers at least parts of nine counties: Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, and Santa Clara. Whether outlying towns such as Gilroy and Santa Cruz "Santa Cruz (California)") are part of the Bay Area or nearby regions like the Central Valley and Central Coast will depend on who you ask. [...] The San Francisco Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse and extensive metropolitan region that is home to nearly 8 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose "San Jose (California)"). Once a focus of Spanish missions and Gold Rush prospectors, the Bay Area is best known now for its alternative lifestyles, liberal politics and the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley. ## Regions [...] Rolling hills, dramatic cliffs, majestic redwoods, and foggy seas make the Bay Area a wonderful place to explore the outdoors. There are so many opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and sailing, you're unlikely to run out of nature to explore. Bicyclists from other parts of the United States will find that this region has a strong biking culture, including urban and mountain biking. For hikers, a surprising number of trails are accessible by public transit (see the Hiking by

• Bay Area (California)

  and extensive metropolitan region that is home to over 7 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose "San Jose (California)"). Once a focus of Spanish missions and Gold Rush prospectors, it is best known now for its lifestyle, liberal politics and high-tech industry (Silicon Valley). Although it doesn't have any firm boundaries, the Bay Area includes portions of nine counties: Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, and Santa [...] Bay Area (California) Image 1: Bay Area Banner.jpg - [x] Understand#Understand) Climate#Climate) Get in#Get_in) By plane#By_plane) By train#By_train) By car#By_car) By bus#By_bus) Get around#Get_around) By car#By_car_2) By train#By_train_2) By boat#By_boat) See#See) City#City) Nature#Nature) Do#Do) Eat#Eat) Stay safe#Stay_safe) Crime#Crime) The Bay Area (more fully, the San Francisco Bay Area), ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse [...] the entrance to the Bay Area is superhighway Interstate 80, which winds its way all the way from New York several thousand miles to pass through Lake Tahoe and Sacramento and end up in San Francisco. From the south, the lovely Highway 101 runs from Southern California through the Central Coast "Central Coast (California)") to Silicon Valley and up the Peninsula "Peninsula (Bay Area)") to San Francisco. Some people prefer Highway 5, which travels more directly through the San Joaquin Valley to

• San Francisco

  Depending on how its borders are defined, the broader San Francisco metropolitan area or San Francisco Bay Area is home to 4.6–9.2 million residents as of 2023, making it the 13th to 5th most populous urban region in the country. [...] San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred by leading universities, high-tech, healthcare, finance, insurance, real estate, and professional services sectors. As of 2020( the metropolitan area, with 4.5 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP ($874 billion) and 2nd by GDP per capita ($131,082) across the OECD countries. In 2023, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $263.1 billion and a GDP per capita of [...] Development of the Port of San Francisco and the establishment in 1869 of overland access to the eastern U.S. rail system via the newly completed Pacific Railroad (the construction of which the city only reluctantly helped support) helped make the Bay Area a center for trade. Catering to the needs and tastes of the growing population, Levi Strauss opened a dry goods business and Domingo Ghirardelli began manufacturing chocolate. Chinese immigrants made the city a polyglot culture, drawn to "Old

• SF Bay Area - Spotlight exhibits at the UC Berkeley Library

  Native-land.ca Spanish exploration and colonization Beginning in the 1770s the Bay Area was the remote northernmost outpost of the vast Spanish empire in the Americas. With the establishment of the Spanish missions the traditional indigenous way of life disappeared rapidly. [...] For more than 13,000 years prior to European settlement the Bay Area was home to many indigenous groups, including the Ohlone, Bay Miwok, and Northern Valley Yokuts. Native peoples found plentiful wildlife and plant resources for hunting and gathering along the East Bay's extensive shoreline marshes and creeks, and in the oak savannas and grasslands of the East Bay Hills. (Blank Image? If the image below is blank, right click on the blank space and choose Reload/Refresh Frame.) [...] Area has taken hold, including the counties that directly border the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties.

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