Menlo Park is a city located on the eastern edge of San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. bordered by San Francisco Bay to the north and east; Ea St. Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Stanford to the south; and Atherton, North Fair Oaks and Redwood City to the west. Menlo Park is one of the most educated cities in California and the USA; almost 70% of residents over the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree or higher. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 32,026 people lived in Menlo Park, and by 2019 their number had grown to about 34,698 people. Facebook is headquartered in the city, and it is here that Google and Round Table Pizza are founded
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.4 square miles (45 km), of which 9.8 square miles (25 km) is land and 7.6 square miles. miles (20 km) are covered with water. Menlo Park is long and narrow on an axis from northeast to southwest. The northeast portion borders San Francisco Bay and includes the Dumbarton Bridge, which connects Menlo Park with Fremont on the east side of the Bay. The city's coastline includes the city's largest park, the Bedwell Bayfront Park (160 acres (65 ha)) and the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. San Francisquito Creek marks most of the southeastern border of the city. West Menlo Park (not part of the city, despite its name) along the Alameda de las Pulgas almost separates the southwestern part of the city (known as Sharon Heights) from the rest. The extreme southwest is bounded by Interstate 280.

The Bayshore Freeway (part of US Route 101) crosses Menlo Park from northwest to southeast near the shoreline and is somewhat parallel to it. southwest of El Camino Real. The intersection of El Camino Real and Santa Cruz Avenue is considered the heart of the city. Nearby Menlo Park Community Center is bounded by Ravenswood Avenue, Alma Street, Laurel Street and Burgess Drive. It contains council offices, a library, a police station and Burgess Park, which has various recreational facilities. Other major roads include Sand Hill Road in the Sharon Heights area.

The residential areas of Menlo Park can be unofficially divided into several blocks. From "east" (northeast to San Francisco Bay) to "west" (southwest to the Pacific Coast), they are defined by Palo Alto Weekly as: Belle Haven is the only area east of Highway 101; most of the rest of the area is commercial or protected land. Between 101 and roughly parallel Middlefield Road are the neighborhoods of Willows, Suburban Park, Lorelei Estate, Flooded Triangle, Vintage Oaks, and south of the Seminary (St. Patrick's Seminary Seminary). Between Middlefield and El Camino Real are the Caltrain and Felton Gables, Linfield Oaks and Park Forest. West of El Camino to the foothills of the peninsula are the neighborhoods of Downtown Menlo Park, Central Menlo Park and Allied Arts (sometimes also known as Stanford Park, it is named after the Allied Arts Guild in it). On the hills are Sharon Heights and Stanford Hills. Several other neighborhoods are closely connected to Menlo Park, but are actually located in unincorporated San Mateo County; These include Menlo Oaks and Fair Oaks (the latter part of the North Fair Oaks census area) between Bayshore and Middlefield, University Heights (also known as West Menlo Park) between Sharon Heights and most of the rest of the city, and Stanford Weekend Acres, which is somewhat near the Stanford Hills.
