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| | ipedia.com: San Francisco Bay Area Article |
 | | San Francisco is generally placed in a category by itself, separated by water from the north and east, and by county line from its neighbor cities to the South (Daly City, South San Francisco and Brisbane). |
| | It is often defined as the area covered by the nine counties that border either San Francisco Bay or San Pablo Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. |
| | However, because San Francisco was historically the first major population center in the area, and because of its densely urbanized character in constrast to its neighbors, people in the region often refer to San Francisco as simply the City. |
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