San Francisco (initials SF) (, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887. The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033.

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asis a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.

1. What is the fourth most populous city in California?
2. What does it rank in the US?
3. When was it founded?
4. What was it named for?
5. How many people live there?
6. During the gold rush was it a small city?
7. How big was it?
8. Is it part of Southern California?
9. Is it a conservative city?
10. What happened to the city in 1906?
11. by what?
12. What happened in 1945

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. San Francisco
2. 13th
3. June 29, 1776
4. St. Francis of Assisi.
5. 870,887
6. No
7. largest city on the West Coast
8. No
9. No
10. destroyed
11. earthquake and fire
12. birthplace of the United Nations in 1945