San Francisco

San Francisco, offeecially the Ceety an Coonty o San Francisco, is the fowert maist populous ceety in Californie an the 12t maist populous ceety in the Unitit States, wi a 2009 estimatit population o 815,358. The anerlie consolidated ceety-coonty in Californie, it encompasses a land aurie o 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northren end o the San Francisco Peninsula, givin it a density o 17,323 fowk/mi² (6,688.4 fowk/km²). It is the maist densely settled lairge ceety (population greater than 200,000) in the state o Californie an the seicont-maist densely populatit lairge ceety in the Unitit States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, an transportation centre o the San Francisco Bay Area, a region o mair nor 7.4 million fowk which includes San Jose an Oakland. In 1776, the Spaingie establisht a fort at the Golden Gate an a mission namit for Francis o Assisi on the steid. The Californie Gowd Rush in 1848 propelled the ceety intae a period o rapid growthe, increasin the population very much, an sicweys transformin it intae the lairgest ceety on the Wast Coast at the time. Efter three-quarters o the ceety wis destroyed bi the 1906 earthquake an fire, San Francisco wis quickly rebuilt, hostin the Panama-Paceefic Internaitional Exposition nine years later. Durin Warld War II, San Francisco wis the port o embarkation for service members shippin oot tae the Paceefic Theater. Efter the war, the confluence o returnin servicemen, massive immigration, leeberalizin attitudes, an ither factors led tae the Simmer o Love an the gay richts movement, cementin San Francisco as a centre o leeberal activism in the Unitit States. The day, San Francisco is a popular internaitional tourist destination, renouned for its chilly simmer fog, steep rollin hills, eclectic mix o Victorian an modren architecture an its famous laundmerks, includin the Golden Gate Bridge, cable caurs, an Chinatown. The ceety is an aa a principal bankin an finance center, an the hame tae mair nor 30 internaitional financial institutions, helpin tae mak San Francisco aichteent place in the warld's top producin ceeties, nint in the Unitit States, an fifteent place in the tap twintie Global Financial Centers. References