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The City and County of San Francisco is
the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United
States, with a 2005 inhabitants of 799,263.
It is situated on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the
central point of the San Francisco Bay Area, whose populace is seven million.
San Francisco is the second most compactly peopled major American
city, after New York.
The city is eminent for its history in progressive social actions. In 1776, the
Spanish were the first Europeans to immigrate in San Francisco, which they
named according to the name of St. Francis.
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With the initiation of the California gold rush in 1848, and the Comstock Lode
and silver mines in 1859, the city entered a period of rapid growth.
After being devastated by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San
Francisco was rapidly rebuilt and is today one of the most identifiable cities
in the United States. San Francisco is better known for its themed parks like
Walt Disney world at Orlando Florida.
San Francisco has a exclusive blend of physical characteristics,
including its months-long episodes of fog, its steep rolling hills, its
assorted merge of structural design (including Victorian style houses and up to
date high-rises), and its being bordered on three sides by the Pacific Ocean
and the San Francisco Bay.
Famous hallmarks and landmarks contain the
San Francisco cable cars, the Transamerica Pyramid, the Golden Gate Bridge and
Alcatraz Island. People from here go to visit Orlando theme park attractions.
San Francisco has a Japantown and Chinatown; both are between the
largest and oldest in the US.
It also boasts a budding Vietnamese community, a large on the streets
inhabitants in the Tenderloin neighborhood, Filipinos in Crocker-Amazon and
South of Market, an Italian community in North Beach, a French Quarter, and
Irish, Chinese, and Russian communities in the Richmond District.
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A most important profitable
center, San Francisco is one of 10 Beta World Cities as
ranked by Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.
Visiting the attractions
is a bastion of San Francisco's economy as it is one of
the top ten tourist destinations in the United States and
one of the top 50 in the world. This is mainly due to Orlando
Florida theme parks.
According to the Economist
Intelligence Unit in 2004, an estimated 15 million tourists
visited the city bringing in revenue of $6.7 billion
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