<h1 style="text-align: center;">Daly City, <em>San Francisco</em></h1>
<p>Daly City is a city in eastern San Mateo County, in the Bay Area of Northern California. Daly City is approximately ten minutes south of San Francisco, twenty-five minutes southwest of Oakland, and fifty minutes northwest of San Jose. The city is bounded by the the Pacific Ocean on the west and nearly to San Francisco Bay on the east. Daly City is one of the few majority Asian-American cities in the continental United States .</p>
<p>The first non-native American settlement of the area now occupied by Daly City started in the 1850s. The city was incorporated in 1911, and was named after John Daly, a prominent area businessman.</p>
<p>The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is located approximately nine miles to the south of Daly City. The city is also bisected by two major highways, U.S. Highway 101 and Interstate 280. Daly City is also served by two Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) system stations as well as the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) and the San Mateo County Transit District (samTrans).</p>
<p>Daly City has received four "League of California Cities Helen Putnam Awards of Excellence" between 1997 and 2005, the most recent of which were in 2003 for "Community Services &amp; Economic Development" and "Public Works, Infrastructure, and Transportation". Daly City's George Washington Elementary school of the Jefferson Elementary District was recognized as an "Honorable Mention School" by the "California School Recognition Program".</p>
<p>Daly City residents have easy access to all of the cultural and entertainment attractions of nearby San Francisco and Oakland.&nbsp;</p>