select language: DE-AT
DE-BE
DE-CH
DE-DE
EN-AU
EN-CA
EN-GB
EN-IN
EN-NZ
EN-US
ES-AR
ES-ES
ES-MX
FR-BE
FR-CA
FR-FR
IT-IT
JA-JP
NL-BE
NL-NL
PT-BR
ZH-CN
DE-AT
DE-BE
DE-CH
DE-DE
ES-ES
FR-BE
FR-FR
IT-IT
NL-BE
NL-NL
Downtown San Francisco, USA
Tech town twilight
Plenty of people have left their hearts in the City by the Bay, but more than 800,000 choose to stay here – meaning this municipality of less than 130 square kilometres has the highest population density of any major US city barring New York. The population's not all that's risen recently either. San Francisco's downtown got a height boost in 2018 when Salesforce Tower added more than 60 metres to the skyline. Dominating the centre of our sunset snapshot, the César Pelli-designed tower took the city height record from the Transamerica Pyramid seen in the right of our image, which had held the top spot since 1972.
Tech town twilight
Plenty of people have left their hearts in the City by the Bay, but more than 800,000 choose to stay here – meaning this municipality of less than 130 square kilometres has the highest population density of any major US city barring New York. The population's not all that's risen recently either. San Francisco's downtown got a height boost in 2018 when Salesforce Tower added more than 60 metres to the skyline. Dominating the centre of our sunset snapshot, the César Pelli-designed tower took the city height record from the Transamerica Pyramid seen in the right of our image, which had held the top spot since 1972.
At the core of the massive Bay Area metropolis sits one of the United States' most densely populated cities.
© heyengel / Adobe Stock 2026-09-11 08:45:51 :