Palo Alto

Palo Alto is a bustling suburb in south of the city of . It is adjacent to Stanford University and home to hundreds of technology companies, ranging from VMware and Hewlett-Packard to tiny startups operating in garages.
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  • Type: City with 65,400 residents
  • Description: city in Santa Clara County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Palo Alto, CA”, “Palo Alto, California”, and “University Park”
  • Postal codes: 94301, 94302, 94304, 94306, and 94309
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hoover Institution and HP Garage.

College
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The on War, Revolution, and Peace, commonly known as the , is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.

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The is a private where the company Hewlett-Packard was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of ".

College
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The is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silicon Valley and Menlo Park.

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lies in the South Bay and the southern 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.

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is a suburban, tree-lined community in midway between the major cities of and . offers visitors easy access to Stanford, Palo Alto and Silicon Valley.

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is a census-designated place in the northwest corner of , United States. It is the home of University, after which it was named.

Palo Alto

Latitude
37.4443° or 37° 26′ 40″ north
Longitude
-122.1598° or 122° 9′ 35″ west
Population
65,400
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
IATA airport code
PAO
United Nations Location Code
US PAO
Open location code
849VCRVR+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 81008084
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5380748
Wiki­data ID
Q47265
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Palo Alto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Palo Alto”
  • Arabic: “بالو ألتو”
  • Armenian: “Պալո Ալտո”
  • Asturian: “Palo Alto (California)”
  • Asturian: “Palo Alto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palo-Alto”
  • Balinese: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Basque: “Palo Alto”
  • Belarusian: “Пала Альта”
  • Belarusian: “Пала-Альта”
  • Bengali: “পালো আলতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Пало Алто”
  • Burmese: “ပါလိုအာတို၊ ကယ်လီဖိုးနီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Palo Alto”
  • Cebuano: “Palo Alto”
  • Chechen: “Пало-Альто”
  • Chinese: “Palo Alto”
  • Chinese: “帕拉托”
  • Chinese: “帕洛阿圖”
  • Chinese: “帕洛阿尔托”
  • Chinese: “帕罗奥图”
  • Chinese: “帕羅奧圖”
  • Chinese: “帕羅奧多”
  • Croatian: “Palo Alto, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Palo Alto”
  • Czech: “Palo Alto”
  • Dagbani: “Palo Alto”
  • Danish: “Palo Alto”
  • Dutch: “Palo Alto”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالو التو”
  • Esperanto: “Palo Alto”
  • Estonian: “Palo Alto”
  • Finnish: “Palo Alto”
  • French: “Palo Alto”
  • Galician: “Palo Alto”
  • Georgian: “პალო-ალტო”
  • German: “Palo Alto”
  • Gilaki: “پالؤ آلتؤ”
  • Greek: “Πάλο Άλτο”
  • Gujarati: “પાલો અલ્ટો”
  • Haitian: “Palo Alto, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Palo Alto”
  • Hebrew: “פאלו אלטו”
  • Hindi: “पालो आल्टो, कैलिफ़ोर्निया”
  • Hindi: “पालो आल्टो”
  • Hungarian: “Palo Alto”
  • Ido: “Palo Alto”
  • Iloko: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Iloko: “Palo Alto”
  • Indonesian: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Indonesian: “Palo Alto”
  • Irish: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Irish: “Palo Alto”
  • Italian: “Palo Alto”
  • Japanese: “カリフォルニア州パル・アルト”
  • Japanese: “パロアルト”
  • Javanese: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Javanese: “Palo Alto”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲೊ ಆಲ್ಟೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Пало Альто”
  • Kazakh: “Пало-Альто”
  • Kirghiz: “Пало Альто”
  • Korean: “팔로 알토”
  • Korean: “팔로알토”
  • Korean: “팰러앨토”
  • Korean: “팰로 앨토”
  • Korean: “팰로앨토”
  • Ladin: “Palo Alto”
  • Latvian: “Paloalto”
  • Lithuanian: “Palo Altas”
  • Low German: “Palo Alto”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palo Alto”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Palo Alto”
  • Macedonian: “Пало Алто”
  • Malagasy: “Palo Alto”
  • Malay: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Malay: “Palo Alto”
  • Malayalam: “പാലോ ആൾട്ടോ”
  • Marathi: “पालो अल्टो”
  • Marathi: “पालो आल्टो, कॅलिफोर्निया”
  • Marathi: “पालो आल्टो”
  • Mazanderani: “پالو آلتو (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “پالو آلتو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palo Alto”
  • Navajo: “Tsin Łichíʼínééz”
  • Newari: “पालो एल्टो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “पालो एल्टो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palo Alto”
  • Northern Luri: “پالوآلتو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palo Alto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palo Alto”
  • Norwegian: “Palo Alto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palo Alto”
  • Ossetian: “Пало-Алто”
  • Pampanga: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Pampanga: “Palo Alto”
  • Persian: “پالو آلتو، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “پالو آلتو”
  • Persian: “پالو التو”
  • Persian: “پالوآلتو”
  • Piemontese: “Palo Alto”
  • Polish: “Palo Alto”
  • Portuguese: “Palo Alto”
  • Pushto: “پالو التو”
  • Romanian: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Romanian: “Palo Alto”
  • Russian: “Пало Альто”
  • Russian: “Пало-Алто”
  • Russian: “Пало-Альто”
  • Scots: “Palo Alto”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palo Alto”
  • Serbian: “Palo Alto”
  • Serbian: “Пало Алто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palo Alto”
  • Silesian: “Palo Alto”
  • Sinhala: “පාලෝ ඇල්ටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Palo Alto”
  • Slovenian: “Palo Alto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالو آلتو، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Palo Alto (California)”
  • Spanish: “Palo Alto”
  • Swahili: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Swahili: “Palo Alto”
  • Swedish: “Palo Alto”
  • Tagalog: “Palo Alto”
  • Tamil: “பாலோ ஆல்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Пало-Альто”
  • Telugu: “పాలో ఆల్టో”
  • Thai: “พาโลอัลโต”
  • Thai: “แพโลแอลโต”
  • Turkish: “Palo Alto”
  • Ukrainian: “Пало Альто”
  • Ukrainian: “Пало-Альто”
  • Urdu: “پالو آلٹو، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “مئیفیلڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Palo-Alto”
  • Vietnamese: “Palo Alto, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Palo Alto”
  • Volapük: “Palo Alto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palo Alto, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palo Alto”
  • Welsh: “Palo Alto, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Palo Alto”
  • Western Armenian: “Փալօ Ալթօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Palo Alto”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕洛阿尔托”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕罗奥图”
  • Yakut: “Пало Альто”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕羅奧圖”
  • “Palo Alto”

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