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San Francisco Bay Area

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San Francisco Bay Aurie
Nine coonty metropolitan aurie
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Jose
San Jose
Akeland
Akeland
KintraUnitit States
StateCalifornie
Major ceetiesSan Francisco
San Jose
Oakland
Fremont
Santa Rosa
Fairfield
Hayward
Sunnyvale
Concord
Santa Clara
Vallejo
Area
 • Metro
18,088 km2 (6,984 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)
 • Nine coonty metropolitan aurie7.44 million[1]
 • Density411/km2 (1065/sq mi)
 • CSA
8.47 million[2]
Time zoneUTC-8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
A view o the San Francisco skyline frae the bay.
San Francisco Bay Aurie map

The San Francisco Bay Aurie, commonly kent as the Bay Aurie, is a populatit region that surroonds the San Francisco an San Pablo estuars in Northren Californie, Unitit States. The region encompasses the major ceeties an metropolitan auries o San Francisco, Oakland, an San Jose, alang wi smawer urban an landwart auries.[3] The Bay Aurie's nine coonties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, an Sonoma.[3][4] Hame tae approximately 7.44 million fowk,[1] the nine-coonty Bay Aurie conteens mony ceeties, touns, airports, an associatit regional, state, an naitional pairks, connectit bi a netwirk o roads, heich-gates, railroads, brigs, tunnels an commuter rail. The combined urban aurie o the region is the seicont-lairgest in Californie (efter the Greater Los Angeles aurie), the fift-lairgest in the Unitit States, an the 43rd-lairgest urban aurie in the warld.

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  1. a b Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named PopEstCounties
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  3. a b "San Francisco Bay Area Vision Project". Bayareavision.org. Archived frae the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  4. "The Association of Bay Area Governments". Abag.ca.gov. 14 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011.

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Coordinates: 37°45′N 122°17′W / 37.750°N 122.283°W / 37.750; -122.283