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California State University, Sacramento, popularly known as Sacramento State, is a public university located in the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the California State University system. The university has a total enrollment of approximately 29,000 students making it the fourth... largest university of the California State University system, and one of the largest comprehensive universities in California. The campus is known as the most diverse campus in the CSU system. Sacramento State awards 7,000 degrees annually. The efforts to get a four-year university in Sacramento date back to the 1920s; however, Bay Area politics prevented the founding until 1947 . The University's colors green and gold symbolize the green of the foothills and trees, and gold for discovery. The university was founded as Sacramento State College in 1947 during a time of intense demand for higher education after World War II. At the time of its founding, Sac State shared space at Sacramento Junior College. By 1953, the school had moved to its permanent location on the banks of the American River.
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San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area... of about 46.9 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile . It is the most densely settled large city in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391. In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site.
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