San Francisco Bay Area

facts about the San Francisco Bay Area

- Northern California

- 8 Million inhabitants

- bays: North bay, South bay, East bay, Outer bay, Peninsula

- 9 counties

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history

- Muwekma Ohlone tribe inhabited Bay Area

- 1769: Spanish arrived

- 1821: part of Mexico because of Spanish independance

- 1846: mexican-american War --> American territory

- 1906: earthquake in San Francisco

http://www.history.army.mil/documents/sfearthquake/SC95197.jpg

San Francisco

- land area: 121 km²

- 850.000 inhabitants

-liberal center of the US

- POI: Alcatraz, as the high-security prison