Civic Center
The Civic Center in San Francisco, California, is an area located a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions.Photo: J. Ash Bowie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Asian Art Museum of San Fransisco
Museum
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art.
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
University
Photo: TheTokl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, is a public law school in San Francisco, California.
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Theatre
Photo: J. Ash Bowie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is a multi-purpose arena in San Francisco, California, named after promoter Bill Graham.
Localities in the Area
Civic Center-Tenderloin
Photo: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within San Francisco, housing many important civic institutions.
Tenderloin
Neighbourhood
The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest.
Hayes Valley
Neighbourhood
Photo: Urban, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California.
Civic Center
- Type: Neighbourhood with 10,100 residents
- Description: historic district in San Francisco, California, United States
- Categories: neighbourhood in San Francisco, NRHP district, civic centre and locality
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.77959° or 37° 46' 47" northLongitude
-122.41679° or 122° 25' 1" westPopulation
10,100Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open Location Code
849VQHHM+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 4609282236OpenStreetMap Feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
8449788Wikidata ID
Q267874Civic Center Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Bulgarian: Сивик сентър
- Cebuano: Civic Center
- Chinese: 市政中心
- Dutch: Civic Center
- English: Civic Center, San Francisco
- French: Civic Center
- Italian: Civic Center
- Japanese: シビック・センター
- Russian: Сивик Сентер (Сан-Франциско)
- Russian: Сивик Сентер
- Turkish: Civic Center, San Francisco
Other Places Named Civic Center
In the Area
Civic Center is situated close to the neighbourhoods West SoMa and Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District.
Localities
- Western Addition
- Union SquareNeighbourhood
- JapantownNeighbourhood
- SoMa
- Lower HaightNeighbourhood
- Western AdditionNeighbourhood
Landmarks
- Helen Diller Civic Center North PlaygroundPlayground
- Helen Diller Civic Center South PlaygroundPlayground
- Civic Center PlazaPark
- Statue of AshurbanipalMemorial
- Pioneer MonumentMonument
- Pioneer MonumentGarden
Popular Destinations in San Francisco
Escape to a Random Place
Discover the hamlet Arrowhead Springs in San Bernardino County, United States and the locality Upper Vaughan in Nova Scotia, Canada.
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Civic Center. Photo: J. Ash Bowie, CC BY-SA 3.0.