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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States.

The twelfth district is made up of nine western states-—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—plus the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has branch offices in Los Angeles, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Seattle.

It also has a cash processing center in Phoenix.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.

There are twelve in total, one for each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts that were created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

The banks are jointly responsible for implementing the monetary policy set forth by the Federal Open Market Committee, and are divided as follows:

A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages a state's currency, money supply, and interest rates.

Central banks also usually oversee the commercial banking system of their respective countries.

In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base in the state, and usually also prints the national currency, which usually serves as the state's legal tender.

California's 12th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.