San Mateo

city in San Mateo County, California, United States
Place city_of_california Q169943

Facts

26 properties

Identity

Instance of
city of California, charter city[6]
Native label
San Mateo[26]
Official name
San Mateo[24]

Location

Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.554°, -122.313°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
San Mateo County[3]
Shares border with
Foster City, Belmont[7][8]

Population and size

Area
+41.137369, +41.137384[30][31]
Elevation above sea level
+12[29]
Population
+97207, +105661[21][22]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 97,207 · 105,661 GeoNames 103,536 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
650[19]
Postal code
94k (94k–94k, n=5)[14][15][16][17][18]
More facts +13
Date of incorporation
September 4, 1894
Head of government
Rick Bonilla[5]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
San Francisco Bay Area
Number of households
+39072[25]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of San Mateo, California[23]
Per capita income
+65319
Water area
+9.721643
Water as percent of area
+23.6321
🏷️ Also known as
en San Mateo en San Mateo, California en San Mateo City en City of San Mateo en San Mateo, CA ar سان ماتيو el Σαν Ματέο en-gb San Mateo, California es Ciudad de San Mateo es Ciudad de San Mateo California es San Mateo (California) fa سان ماتیو he סן מטאו hi सैन मटेओ hu San Mateo (Kalifornia) ja サンマテオ ja サン・マテオ ja サン・マテオ (カリフォルニア州) ko 산마테오 ko 샌마테오
🔖 Identifiers · 42
VIAF cluster ID
129707941
Library of Congress authority ID
n81081033
GND ID
4118343-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
MCB-san-mateo-aerial.jpg ↗
App Store developer ID
1883198869
ArchINFORM location ID
16221
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12017925
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--79469
Domain name
san-mateo.ca.us
FAST ID
1214306
Show all 42 identifiers +30
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
06-68252
Facebook location ID
108067045880199
FactGrid item ID
FLF
Freebase ID
/m/0r5y9
GNIS Feature ID
1659584, 2411800
GeoNames ID
5392423
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7014462
Google Maps Customer ID
18270818863959251879
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
san-mateo-2
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0430348
Interlingual Index ID
i84264
NL CR AUT ID
ge132344
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007531817805171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2835017
Quora topic ID
San-Mateo-CA
RKD thesaurus ID
10957
Ringgold ID
93771
Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID
vtls013126849
Subreddit
sanmateo
Topic's main category
Category:San Mateo, California
TripAdvisor ID
33031
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045925
UN/LOCODE
USSXF
Who's on First ID
85922431
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09088726-n
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJgmTG8XJ6pyb4WFDmfyVC
X (Twitter) username
CityofSanMateo

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People born here 45
People who died here 30
← Location of formation 7
Contained subdivisions 5
← Place of publication 4
Located in time zone 3
Residents 3
Twinned administrative body 3
← Twinned administrative body 3
Different from 2
Shares border with 2
← Category combines topics 2
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Category for people born here 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
FLF
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in the statistical territorial entity 1
Member of 1
Named after 1
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Topic's main category 1
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Summary

San Mateo is a city of California[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for San Mateo include it–Hayward Bridge[32], a road bridge[33], in United States[34], founded in 1967[35].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include it–Hayward Bridge[32], a road bridge[33], in United States[34], founded in 1967[35].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . cityofsanmateo.org. Retrieved . cityofsanmateo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . cacities.org. Retrieved . cacities.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . smdailyjournal.com. smdailyjournal.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . it-ch.topographic-map.com. it-ch.topographic-map.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+41.137369'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+41.137384'}
    Water as percent of area → {'unit': 'Q11229', 'amount': '+23.6321'}
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