Why is it called the Golden Gate Bridge

Basically is related to the fact that is the narrowest entrances of San Francisco bay and the Pacific Ocean, and is beautiful as gold.

It got its name because of the narrow entrance between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco bay by an explorer and U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont, who was amazed by It's beauty in 1846- two years before the discovery of gold in California.

Because the narrow entrance between Pacific Ocean and San Francisco bay