Introduction to Bay Area

The Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse and extensive metropolitan region that is home to nearly 8 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose. Read More »

Bay Area
San Francisco
San Francisco: Golden Gate
San Francisco: Chinatown-North Beach
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Introduction to Bay Area is based on Bay Area by Ryan Holliday, Peter Fitzgerald, Globe-trotter, Cwjazz, Mister handy, PerryPlanet, Vkw, Coolcaesar, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.