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The City and County of San Francisco (estimated population 799,263) is the fourth-largest city in the state of California in terms of population. San Francisco real estate is a consolidated city-county (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula that forms San Francisco Bay. The city also includes several islands in the bay and the Farallon Islands 27 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
The city is a focal point of the San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area, and part of the greater San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA), the population of which is over 7 million. U.S. Census data show that San Francisco has the highest population density of any major U.S. city after New York City.
San Fransisco real estate not to be missed include the beautiful homes in an area of the city known as Pacific Heights, as well as the victorian homes in Haight-Ashbury. San Francisco real estate is famous for its hills and the streets which run straight up and down. Three of San Francisco's notable hill neighborhoods are Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and Telegraph Hill, all located near Downtown. Away from the downtown area is a series of less populated hills dominated by Mount Sutro. Nearby are the equally well known Twin Peaks, which are a pair of hills resting at one of the city's highest points. About 1.2 km (1 mile) south of Mount Sutro is San Francisco's highest mountain, Mount Davidson, which is over 282 meters (925 feet) high.*