They are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marín, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma. Among these nine counties there are 101 cities, with an estimated number of 7.756 million people and about 7,000 square miles. Just as it's hard to identify a Bay Area flavor, it's hard to identify a Bay Area sound, he says. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is an extensive regional subway system that connects San Francisco to the East Bay, as well as to parts of the peninsula, the eastern half of Silicon Valley, and the airports of San Francisco and Oakland. For more than 13,000 years before European colonization, the Bay Area was home to many indigenous groups, including the Ohlone, the Miwok of the Bay and the Yokuts of the North Valley.
The Bay Area's subregions are described in several ways, which can give a first-time visitor the impression that the Bay Area is larger than it actually is. Two long-distance trains, the California Zephyr to Chicago and the Coast Starlight between Seattle and Los Angeles, run through the Bay Area with stations in Martinez and Emeryville, and the Coast Starlight also stops at Jack London Square Station in Oakland and San Jose. It encompassed most of the East Bay region and included the land where today the campus of the University of California and the city of Berkeley. The Bay Area (more specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area), which surrounds San Francisco Bay in Northern California, is a large and geographically diverse metropolitan region that is home to more than 7 million people in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and San José.
From Emeryville, passengers can take an Amtrak California Thruway bus over the Bay Bridge to the San Francisco Amtrak stop at 101 The Embarcadero (near the Ferry Building) and usually several other downtown destinations (note that Amtrak passengers are not subject to any additional bus charges). Interstate 280 and South Bay highways and highways tend to be less congested than Peninsula and East Bay highways. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the estuaries of San Francisco Bay in the north from California. The climate in the Bay Area is affected by microclimates, so certain parts of the East Bay can be up to 15 degrees warmer than downtown San Francisco and up to 20 degrees warmer than the area around the Golden Gate Bridge.
San Mateo and the northern part of Santa Clara counties comprise the peninsula, while Contra Costa and Alameda counties comprise the eastern Bay Area. But what exactly is considered the Bay Area? I admit that even being a resident of the Bay Area for ten years, I was originally not quite sure what is and what is not considered the “Bay Area”. Gradually, in the second half of the 19th century, American ranches and settlements appeared in the East Bay region.
