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San Francisco (SF) (Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

It is the birthplace of the United Nations.

Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula, San Francisco is about in area, making it the smallest county—and the only consolidated city-county—within the state of California.

With a density of about 18,451 people per square mile (7,124 people per km2), San Francisco is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City.

San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 13th-most populous city in the United States—with a census-estimated 2015 population of 864,816.

The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area, and are a part of the larger OMB-designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8.7 million.

The Golden Gates of Kiev was the main gate in the 11th century fortifications of Kiev, the capital of Kievan Rus'.

It was named in imitation of the Golden Gate of Constantinople.

The structure was dismantled in the Middle Ages, leaving few vestiges of its existence.

It was completely rebuilt by the Soviet authorities in 1982, though no images of the original gates have survived.

The decision has been immensely controversial, for there were many competing reconstructions of what the original gate might have looked like.