The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous
city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United
States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only
consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land
area of 46.7 square miles (121 km)  on the northern end of the
San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely
populated large city (greater than 200,000 population) in the
United States.</ref> San Francisco is anchor to the 13th-largest
metropolitan area in the country, containing 4.3 million, and is
the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger
San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.4 million people. For the
2009-2010 season, the San Francisco Bay Area was ranked the 6th
largest television market in the United States. In the 1970s,
the city became a center of the gay rights movement, with the
emergence of The Castro as an urban gay village, the election of
Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors, and his assassination,
along with