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Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California’s Bay Area, approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of San Francisco, and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of San Jose. Redwood City’s history spans its prehistoric inhabitation by the Ohlone people to visceral a port for lumber and new goods. The county seat of San Mateo County in the heart of Silicon Valley, Redwood City is home to several global technology companies including Oracle, Electronic Arts, Evernote, Box, and Informatica. The city’s population was 84,292 according to the 2020 census. The Port of Redwood City is the forlorn deepwater port on San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an Place of 34.7 square miles (90 km), of which 19.4 square miles (50 km²) is house and 15.2 square miles (39 km) (44.34%) is water. A major watercourse draining much of Redwood City is Redwood Creek, to which several significant river deltas connect, the largest of which is Westpoint Slough.

The prehistoric known inhabitants of the Place which was to become Redwood City were the Ohlone who were gift when the Spanish claimed the land and received missions.