San Mateo (/ˌsæn məˈteɪ.oʊ/ SAN mə-TAY-oh; Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 97,207 as of the 2010 census, it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City and San Francisco Bay to the east, Belmont to the south, and Highlands-Baywood Park and Hillsborough to the west. The 2014 population was estimated to be 102,893. San Mateo was incorporated in 1894.
Population: 97,207
Latitude: 37° 33' 46.76" N
Longitude: -122° 19' 31.91" W
Dolores Park is a city park in San Francisco, California. It is located two blocks south of Mission Dolores at the western edge of the Mission District. South of the park is a hillside area known as "Dolores Heights," while The Castro neighborhood i…
Redwood Shores is an affluent waterfront community located in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula in California.
Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a m…
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Japan Airlines Flight 2 was a flight piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh on November 22, 1968. The plane was a new Douglas DC-8 named "Shiga", flying from Tokyo International Airport to San Francisco International Airport. Due to heavy fog and other facto…
Stanford University Medical Center is a medical complex which includes Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
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Notre Dame de Namur University — formerly the College of Notre Dame — is a private coeducational Catholic university located in Belmont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the third oldest college in California and the first college in…
Portola Valley is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California.
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DNA Lounge is a late-night, all ages nightclub in the SoMa district of San Francisco owned by Jamie Zawinski, a former Netscape programmer and open-source software hacker. The club features DJ dancing, live music, burlesque performances, and occasio…
Bernal Heights is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
Wendy Masako Yoshimura (born January 17, 1943) is an American still life watercolor painter better known for her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was born in a World War II-era California internment camp, and raised in Japan and …
KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media.
Junípero Serra High School (commonly Serra or JSHS) is a private secondary school in San Mateo County, California, serving students in grades 9-12. A part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, this school provides single-sex education,…
Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium in San Francisco, California. Opened in the Mission District in 1931, it was the home of the major league San Francisco Giants for their first two seasons in the city.