San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors (Vietnam) led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.Today, San Francisco is one of the top tourist destinations in the world, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and ninth place in the top twenty global financial centers.
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