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The East Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It lies on the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay, and includes Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. "East Bay" is also Pig Latin for "beast".

San Francisco Bay's eastern shore was once known as "Contra Costa", a name now used for and exclusively associated with Contra Costa County, which occupies the East Bay's northern half.

Transportation

Interstates 80, 580, 680, 880; California State Route 24 and California State Route 4 are the main highways of the East Bay.

Major Employers

The East Bay is a economically well-developed area offering many employment opportunities. The largest employers are:

The U.S. Postal Service with around 10,000 employees
Chevron Corp. with 8,730 employees
The county of Constra Costa County by offering 8,416 jobs
Safeway with 7,922 employees
Bank of America with 7,081 employees
The telecommunications conglomerate of SBC, Pacific Bell and Cingular Wireless now known as at&t with around 7,000 employees
PG&E employing roughly 5,200 people
Kaiser Permanente with 4,730 employees
Lucky Stores with 4,631 employees
Bio-Rad Laboratories with circa 4,300 employees
Wells Fargo that has around 4,000 people working for them in the East Bay
AT&T with another 4,000 jobs offered
Mount Diablo Unified School District with 3,700 employees
West Contra Costa Unified School District with 3,360 employees
and John Muir Medical Center with 3,023

Other companies include Longs Drugs and Contra Costa Newspapers both of which have their headquarters in the East Bay. ^[1]

Cities

East Bay cities include:

Notes

^ "Office of County Administrator; County Audit, and various published sources, including San Francisco Chronicle, May 2002; East Bay Business Times, November 2001; San Francisco Business Times, November 1999. Data is for the reported entity’s latest fiscal year." as seen on: [1]

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[0-1] "Office of County Administrator; County Audit, and various published sources, including San Francisco Chronicle, May 2002; East Bay Business Times, November 2001; San Francisco Business Times, November 1999. Data is for the reported entity’s latest fiscal year." as seen on: [1]

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 [[Image:Map Whole East Bay.jpg|thumb|350px|A part of the East Bay showing [[Concord, California|Concord]], [[Walnut Creek, California|Walnut Creek]], [[Martinez, California|Martinez]], [[Pleasant Hill, California|Pleasant Hill]] and [[Clayton, California|Clayton]]]]
-The '''East Bay''' is a subregion of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], [[California]], [[USA|United States]].  It lies on the eastern shores of the [[San Francisco Bay]] and [[San Pablo Bay]], and includes [[Alameda County, California|Alameda]] and [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa]] Counties.
+The '''East Bay''' is a subregion of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], [[California]], [[USA|United States]].  It lies on the eastern shores of the [[San Francisco Bay]] and [[San Pablo Bay]], and includes [[Alameda County, California|Alameda]] and [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa]] Counties.  "East Bay" is also [[Pig Latin]] for "beast".
 San Francisco Bay's eastern shore was once known as "Contra Costa", a name now used for and exclusively associated with Contra Costa County, which occupies the East Bay's northern half.