The card's been signed and the cake is all gone. It's been a good run, but MapQuest Open Street Map site has been retired. We apologize for any inconvenience. But don't worry! If you're using a map generated from this site on your website, please visit our Developer blog for information on how to transition your map to our updated tiles.
The Bay Area (more fully, 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.
California counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is both a city and a county. Santa Cruz County and San Benito County are not geographic counties in the Bay Area, having no borders on San Francisco Bay, but are in the federal San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.