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Foster City
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city in San Mateo County, California, United States
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Vinony's link graph records 878 inbound references to Foster City, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, San Mateo County and Pacific Time Zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in CA.
Vinony files it under 1971 establishments in California, Cities in San Mateo County, California and Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- San Mateo
- Incorporated
- April 27, 1971
- Named after
- T. Jack Foster, Foster Enterprises
- Mayor
- Stacy Jimenez
- City manager
- Stefan Chatwin
- Total
- 19.83 sq mi (51.37 km )
- Land
- 3.79 sq mi (9.81 km )
- Water
- 16.05 sq mi (41.56 km ) 80.90%
- Elevation
- 6.6 ft (2 m)
- Density
- 8,927/sq mi (3,446.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 ( PDT )
- Fips code
- 06-25338
- Gnis feature ids
- 1659723 , 2410534
- Website
- www .fostercity .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Foster City
- Population
- 33805
- Area
- 51.388071
- Elevation
- 7
- Official website
- www.fostercity.org
- Image
- Foster City aerial view, February 2018.JPG
- Households
- 12243
- Dialing code
- 650
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- Commons category
- Foster City, California
- inception
- 1971-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 81.0682
- P8168
- Aly Raisman
- water area
- 41.659374
- per capita income
- 74554
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Encyclopedic overview
An aerial photograph of Foster City in 2013
Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, United States. Foster City is sometimes considered to be part of Silicon Valley for its local industry and its proximity to Silicon Valley cities. There are many notable companies headquartered in Foster City, such as Gilead Sciences, Zoox, and Replit. Visa and Sledgehammer Games were formerly headquartered in Foster City.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foster City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.