Santa Clara County
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- Type: county of California with 1,780,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Santa Clara”, “Santa Clara County (Calif.)”, “Santa Clara County, CA”, and “Santa Clara County, California”
- Neighbors: Merced County, San Benito County, San Joaquin County, Santa Cruz County, and Stanislaus County
Places of Interest
Highlights include Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve and Metcalf Energy Center.
Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve
Nature reserve
Máyyan 'Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve is an 1,859-acre publicly owned open space preserve in southern Santa Clara County. It opened to the public in August 2023 with 5 miles of trails.
Metcalf Energy Center
Power station
Photo: Pedro Xing, CC0.
The Metcalf Energy Center is a 605 megawatt combined cycle power plant located in Silicon Valley, located in unincorporated Coyote Valley, south of San Jose, California and north of Morgan Hill, California.
Tulare Hill
Peak
Photo: Wahn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tulare Hill is a prominent hill in the Santa Teresa Hills of western Santa Clara County, California. It lies along the southernmost edge of San Jose, California, adjacent to the Metcalf Energy Center. Tulare Hill is situated 3½ miles west of Santa Clara County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coyote.
Coyote
Hamlet
Coyote is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara Valley astride Coyote Creek and between San Jose and Morgan Hill's Madrone district in Santa Clara County.
Santa Clara County
- Location: California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Santa Clara County from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Santa Clara County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Santa Clara County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سانتا كلارا (كاليفورنيا)”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سانتا كلارا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه سانتا كلارا، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կլարա շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Santa Clara”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Santa Clara”
- Asturian: “Santa Clara (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Santa Klara qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Santa-Klara qraflığı”
- Basque: “Santa Clara konderria”
- Bavarian: “Santa Clara County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Santa Clara County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Санта-Клара”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Клара”
- Bishnupriya: “সান্তা ক্লারা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “সান্তা ক্লারা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Санта Клара”
- Catalan: “comtat de Santa Clara”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Santa Clara”
- Cebuano: “Santa Clara County”
- Central Kurdish: “سانتا کلارا، کالیفۆرنیا”
- Chechen: “Санта-Клара”
- Chinese: “Santa Clara County”
- Chinese: “Santa Clara Kūn”
- Chinese: “圣克拉拉县”
- Chinese: “聖克拉拉縣”
- Chinese: “聖塔克拉拉縣”
- Chinese: “聖塔克拉拉郡”
- Czech: “Santa Clara County”
- Danish: “Santa Clara County”
- Dutch: “Santa Clara County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة سانتا كلارا”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Sankta Klaro”
- Esperanto: “kantono Santa Clara”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Santa Clara”
- Estonian: “Santa Clara maakond”
- Finnish: “Santa Clara County”
- Finnish: “Santa Claran piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Santa Clara”
- French: “Comté de Santa Clara”
- Galician: “Condado de Santa Clara, California”
- Galician: “Condado de Santa Clara”
- Georgian: “სანტა-კლარას ოლქი”
- German: “Santa Clara County”
- Gilaki: “سانتا کلارا شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Σάντα Κλάρα”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Σάντα Κλάρα”
- Greek: “Σάντα Κλάρα”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סנטה קלרה”
- Hebrew: “סנטה קלרה”
- Hungarian: “Santa Clara megye”
- Icelandic: “Santa Clara County”
- Icelandic: “Santa Clara-sýsla”
- Indonesian: “County Santa Clara, California”
- Indonesian: “Santa Clara County”
- Irish: “Contae Santa Clara, California”
- Irish: “Contae Santa Clara”
- Italian: “contea di Santa Clara”
- Italian: “Contea di Santa Clara”
- Italian: “Santa Clara County”
- Japanese: “サンタ・クララ郡”
- Japanese: “サンタクララ郡”
- Kazakh: “Санта-Клара”
- Korean: “산타클라라 군”
- Korean: “샌타클라라군”
- Korean: “샌타클래라 군”
- Korean: “샌타클래라군”
- Latin: “Santa Clara Comitatus”
- Latvian: “Santaklāras apgabals”
- Latvian: “Santaklēras apgabals”
- Limburgan: “Santa Clara County”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Klaros apygarda”
- Low German: “Santa Clara County”
- Luxembourgish: “Santa Clara County”
- Macedonian: “Санта Клара”
- Malayalam: “സാന്താ ക്ലാര കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “सांता क्लारा काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کلارا شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کلارا شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Clara Kūn”
- Navajo: “Tólą́ Nihiníyíní Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Santa Clara County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Clara County”
- Norwegian: “Santa Clara County”
- Pampanga: “Santa Clara County, California”
- Pampanga: “Santa Clara County”
- Persian: “شهرستان سانتا کلارا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان سانتا کلارا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Santa Clara”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Santa Clara”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Santa Clara, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Santa Clara”
- Russian: “Санта-Клара”
- Sardinian: “contea de Santa Clara”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Santa Clara County”
- Serbian: “Okrug Santa Klara”
- Serbian: “Santa Clara County”
- Serbian: “Округ Санта Клара”
- Serbian: “Санта Клара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Clara County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Clara County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Santa Clara”
- Slovenian: “Santa Clara County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Santa Clara, California”
- Spanish: “Condado de Santa Clara”
- Spanish: “Santa Clara County California”
- Swedish: “Santa Clara County”
- Swedish: “Santa Clara”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Santa Clara, California”
- Tagalog: “Santa Clara County”
- Tajik: “шаҳристони Санта-Клара”
- Tatar: “Санта-Клара (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Санта-Клара”
- Tumbuka: “Santa Clara County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Santa Clara County”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara County, CA”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara County”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara İlçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Santa Clara ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Клара”
- Urdu: “سانتا کلارا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Santa Clara”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Santa Clara, Ca Li”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Santa Clara, California”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Santa Clara”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Santa Clara, Ca Li”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Santa Clara, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Santa Clara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Santa Clara, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Santa Clara”
- Welsh: “Santa Clara County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Santa Clara County”
- Western Armenian: “Սանթա Քլարա”
- Western Panjabi: “سانتا کلارا کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “圣克拉拉县”
- “Santa Clara”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Coyote and Perry.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Motorcycle County Park and Field Sports County Park.
California: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento.
Curious Places to Discover
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