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Today, the Bay Area is the home of Silicon Valley, Wine Country, and numerous companies, universities, bridges, airports, and parks. 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 Bay Area county map. 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.
In 2015, 45 Bay Area cities counted zero homicides, the largest of which was Daly City. [165] In 2015, Oakland also saw the highest rates of property crime in the Bay Area, at 59.4 incidents per thousand residents, with San Francisco following close behind at 53 incidents per thousand residents.
Name Type County Population (2010) Land area Incorporated sq mi km 2; Alameda: City Alameda: 73,812 10.61 27.5 April 19, 1854: Albany: City Alameda: 18,539
Amtrak's Capitol Corridor and San Joaquins lines, connecting the Bay Area with Sacramento and the San Joaquin Valley, in addition to the California Zephyr and Coast Starlight long distance inter-city rail services; Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), which will soon connect the Bay Area's five most populous counties
(KRON) — Two of the best cities to retire in the United States are in the Bay Area, according to a recent study. Walnut Creek was ranked 16th, and Novato was ranked 18th as the “safest and ...
The North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The largest city is Santa Rosa , which is the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. It is the location of the Napa and Sonoma wine regions , and is the least populous and least urbanized part of the Bay Area.
Bay Area cities are named in a new list of the safest and wealthiest retirement locations in America.