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See the best Bay area places to travel
See the best Bay area places to travel
The Bay Area has distinct areas with their own attractions and cultures.
The Bay Area is more fully known

as the San Francisco Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse and extensive metropolitan region that is home to over 7 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. The Bay Area or San Francisco Bay Area is best known now for its lifestyle, liberal politics and high-tech industry such as Silicon Valley. The Bay Area covers portions of nine counties: San Mateo, Contra Costa,  Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, San Francisco, Alameda, and Santa Clara.