Local time
Sun, 4:30 AM PDTAmerica/Los_AngelesCity
San Francisco
37.77° N, 122.42° W
- Population
- 3,450,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 13 of 420
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 420 cities of United States of America in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of United States of America, so this is not a national ranking.
- State
- California State
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the state is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Founded
- 1776
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 601 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Named after
- Francis of Assisi
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-18
- Time zone
- America/Los_Angeles
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for San Francisco, from the same records as the rest of this page.
Country
United States of AmericaCountry profileOn the ground
No mapped places yetDistricts not mappedNo places in San Francisco have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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