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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.
Stretches south down from San Francisco across San Mateo County and into the northern parts of Santa Clara County. South Bay. South of the Peninsula and the East Bay, includes most of Santa Clara County, and is anchored by the most populous city in the Bay Area, San Jose.y car [edit]. From the east, the entrance to the Bay Area is superhighway Interstate 80, which wends its way all the way from New York several thousand miles to pass through Lake Tahoe and Sacramento and end up in San Francisco.