San Francisco, California is the fourth most populated city in California. With a population of around 865,095, it is ranks second as the most densely populated city in the United States.
It is known as "Everybody's Favorite City" and "The Golden Gate City". San Francisco county is just one of nine counties which make up the Bay Area.
It is known internationally as a popular tourist destination with a variety of famous landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Chinatown, and Alcatrez just to name a few.
San Francisco is also a financial hub with more than 30 banking and financial institutions. In fact, it ranks eighteenth in the world and ninth in the United States as one of the world's top producing cities.
This city ranks #2 as the greenest city in the United States by Mother Nature Networks, Popular Science, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). San Francisco uses more solar energy than any other city in the United States and it has a city ordinance banning plastic grocery bags.
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