San Francisco is seven by seven miles. Everyone who lives here knows that. There’s even a magazine named after this fact. … While the land area is about 49 square miles, as Wikipedia points out the total area is a much larger 232 square miles when you include water.

Is San Francisco 7x7?

The name, pronounced “seven-by-seven”, originally represented the approximate forty-nine square miles making up the City and County of San Francisco. 7×7 is produced by McEvoy Media, which is owned by the McEvoy Group.

Why is SF called SF?

San Francisco (Spanish for Saint Francis) was founded on 29 June 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away.