[kodt]

San Francisco is considered small? Its a top 20 city in terms of population.

[zem]

i live there and i think of it as medium sized, but then again i'm from india :) 800k would make the top 100 in india, but certainly not the top 20.

[kirubakaran]

Wow TIL! And I've been living in SF for over 10 years!

[bombcar]

City vs metropolitan area confuses many people. A size of a city “feels” like the metropolitan area, but that it often technically many cities up against each other.

[kirubakaran]

I agree, but that's not the case here though. Just SF the city, not "SF Bay Area", is the 17th largest city in the US! SF feels small, both in area and density.