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San Francisco is a modern city world-famous for
its culture and never-say-die attitude, and set against
the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. The city is known for its trams, hills, summer fogs and stunning
Golden Gate Bridge. The Bay Area is now also the location of Silicon Valley – the technology centre of the USA,
One of the largest and most visited urban parks in the world.
leading the way into the future.
The largest and deepest ocean on Earth.
Earthquake-causing fault line that runs near to the city. Minor earthquakes happen frequently with much more powerful quakes every century or so.
A large earthquake is now overdue.
Located in the nearby city of Menlo Park. Facebook Inc. owns WhatsApp and
Instagram and is one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Sitting south of the city of San Francisco is Silicon
Valley, the centre of the computer and
technology industries in the USA.
The HQ of the multinational technology
company Google is in nearby Mountain View.
These evergreens are some of the
Earth’s tallest, and oldest, trees.
The headquarters of computer company Apple is located in nearby Cupertino. It is nicknamed the ‘Spaceship’ because of its futuristic design, including a roof covered in solar panels. Inside the ‘doughnut’ is a park.