Officially known as City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco is the cultural and economical hub of the northern California area. It is the fourth largest city in California and the only consolidated city and county in United States. The most recognised attractions of the city are the famous Golden Gate Bridge and the once functioning but now retired Alcatraz prison.
While full of landmarks, San Francisco high-tech industry is developing at an incredible rate bringing in experts from different fields like networking, cloud-computing, hardware development and software implementation.
San Francisco has many different nicknames such as: “the City of the Bay”, “Fog City”, “San Fran” and many others. Besides having a very high standard of living it is also home to many big banking and technology businesses. The city’s economy is very broad and diverse, and was until recently mostly focused on financial services and tourism. While that is still the case, high technology industry is becoming ever more present in San Francisco’s economy.
The county and city of San Francisco is services by San Francisco International Airport. The airport is a major gateway to Europe and Asia and ranks 8th as one of the busiest airports in United States and the largest international gateway in the country. Trading is always active through the Port of San Francisco which is found in the natural harbor near the Golden Gate Bridge.
The port is a waterfront and a gateway into San Francisco and it’s a mecca for all sorts of activities like sports, cruises, business and much more. It has its own shopping mall, aquarium, museum and a cruise terminal.
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The growing technology sector of San Francisco means you will find companies in San Francisco like Mozilla, Dropbox, Twitter and Pinterest here.