Stanford
Stanford is a census-designated place in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University, after which it was named.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 13,800 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Stanford, CA” and “Stanford, California”
- Postal code: 94305
- Neighbors: Menlo Park and Palo Alto
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stanford Memorial Church and Hoover Institution.
Stanford Memorial Church
Place of worship
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Stanford Memorial Church is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland.
Hoover Institution
College
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The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations.
Cecil H. Green Library
Library
The Cecil H. Green Library is the main library on the Stanford University campus and is part of the SUL system. It is named for Cecil H. Green. Green Library houses 4 million volumes, most of which are related to the humanities and social sciences.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include College Terrace and Palo Alto.
College Terrace
Neighborhood
College Terrace is a neighborhood in the city of Palo Alto, California, adjacent to Stanford University.
Palo Alto
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Palo Alto is a bustling suburb in Santa Clara County south of the city of San Francisco. It is adjacent to Stanford University and home to hundreds of Silicon Valley technology companies, ranging from VMware and Hewlett-Packard to tiny startups operating in garages.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley lies in the South Bay and the southern Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Once best known for its prune orchards, the area underwent explosive growth with the creation of the high-tech industry in the 1960s.
Stanford
Latitude
37.42747° or 37° 25′ 39″ northLongitude
-122.17025° or 122° 10′ 13″ westPopulation
13,800Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
US TNQOpen location code
849VCRGH+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 150934500OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Stanford” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Stanford”
- Arabic: “ستانفرد (كاليفورنيا)”
- Arabic: “ستانفورد”
- Armenian: “Սթենֆորդ, Կալիֆորնիա”
- Armenian: “Սթենֆորդ”
- Asturian: “Stanford”
- Azerbaijani: “Stenford”
- Balinese: “Stanford, California”
- Balinese: “Stanford”
- Basque: “Stanford”
- Belarusian: “Стэнфард”
- Bulgarian: “Станфорд”
- Catalan: “Stanford”
- Cebuano: “Stanford”
- Chechen: “Стенфорд”
- Chinese: “Stanford”
- Chinese: “史丹福”
- Chinese: “斯坦佛”
- Chinese: “斯坦福”
- Croatian: “Stanford”
- Czech: “Stanford”
- Danish: “Stanford”
- Dutch: “Stanford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستانفورد”
- Esperanto: “Stanford”
- Estonian: “Stanford”
- Finnish: “Stanford”
- French: “Stanford”
- Galician: “Stanford”
- German: “Stanford”
- Gilaki: “استنفؤرد”
- Greek: “Στάνφορντ”
- Hebrew: “סטנפורד”
- Hindi: “स्टॅनफोर्ड, कॅलिफोर्निया”
- Hindi: “स्टॅनफोर्ड”
- Hungarian: “Stanford”
- Indonesian: “Stanford, California”
- Indonesian: “Stanford”
- Irish: “Stanford”
- Italian: “Stanford”
- Japanese: “スタンフォード”
- Korean: “스탠퍼드”
- Ladin: “Stanford”
- Latin: “Stanford Californiae”
- Marathi: “स्टॅनफोर्ड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Stanford”
- Newari: “स्ट्यानफर्ड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “स्ट्यानफर्ड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanford”
- Norwegian: “Stanford”
- Persian: “استنفورد، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “استنفورد”
- Polish: “Stanford”
- Portuguese: “Stanford”
- Romanian: “Stanford, California”
- Romanian: “Stanford”
- Russian: “Станфорд”
- Russian: “Стэнфорд”
- Serbian: “Станфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stanford, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stanford”
- Silesian: “Stanford”
- Slovak: “Stanford”
- Slovenian: “Stanford”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایستانفورد، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Stanford (California)”
- Spanish: “Stanford”
- Swahili: “Stanford, California”
- Swahili: “Stanford”
- Swedish: “Stanford, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Stanford”
- Tajik: “Стэнфорд”
- Talysh: “Stanford (Kalifornijə)”
- Talysh: “Stanford”
- Tatar: “Стәнфорд”
- Tatar: “Стенфорд”
- Turkish: “Stanford, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Stanford”
- Ukrainian: “Стенфорд”
- Urdu: “اسٹنفرڈ”
- Urdu: “سٹینفورڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Vietnamese: “Stanford, California”
- Vietnamese: “Stanford”
- Volapük: “Stanford”
- Welsh: “Stanford”
- Western Armenian: “Սթենֆորտ”
- Yue Chinese: “史丹福”
- “Stanford”
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