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.
- Type: Region
- Description: region of Northern California in the United States
- Also known as: “Kiseldalen”, “Kísildalur”, “Křemíkové údolí”, “Kremíkové údolie”, “Krzemowa Dolina”, “Ndagwurugwu”, “Räniorg”, “Silicia Valo”, “Siliciumvallei”, “Silicon Valley (California)”, “Silicon Valley, CA”, “Silicon Valley, California”, “Siliconvalley”, “Silikona ieleja”, “Silikonove doline”, “Silisiumdalen”, “Stanford Industrial Park”, “Thung lũng Điện tử”, “Valle del Silicio”, “Σίλικον Βάλεϋ”, “Компанії Силіконової долини”, “Силиконова долина”, “Силиконовата долина”, “Силиконска Долина”, “Силициевата долина”, “Силіконова долина”, “Сіліконавая даліна”, “Сыліконавая даліна”, “دره سیلیکان”, “درهٔ سیلیکان”, “درهٔ سیلیکون”, “دره ی سیلیکون”, “دره‌ی سیلیکون”, “سيلكون فالي”, “سيليكون فالي”, “سيليكون ڤالي”, “سیلیکان ولی”, “سیلیکن ولی”, “سیلیکون ولی”, “وادي السليكون”, “وادي السيلكون”, “یوپلاس”, “சிலிகான் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”, “ซิลิคอนวัลเลย์”, “ဆီလီကွန်တောင်ကြား”, “실리콘 벨리”, “シリコン・ヴァレー”, “シリコン・バレー”, “シリコンヴァレー”, “シリコンバーレー”, and “ニューリッチ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: HP Garage and Hoover Institution.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
Silicon Valley
- Categories: technology center, subregion, and locality
- Location: Santa Clara County, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.443° or 37° 26′ 35″ north
Longitude
-122.1545° or 122° 9′ 16″ west
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
Open location code
849VCRVW+55
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Silicon Valley” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Silicon Valley”
- Arabic: “وادي السيليكون”
- Armenian: “Սիլիկոն Վալի”
- Armenian: “Սիլիկոնային հովիտ”
- Asturian: “Silicon Valley”
- Azerbaijani: “Silikon vadisi”
- Azerbaijani: “Silikon Vadisi”
- Balinese: “Lebah Silikon”
- Basque: “Silicon Valley”
- Belarusian: “Крамянёвая даліна”
- Belarusian: “Крэмніевая даліна”
- Bengali: “সিলিকন ভ্যালি”
- Betawi: “Lebak Silikon”
- Bosnian: “Silicijska dolina”
- Bosnian: “Silikonska dolina”
- Breton: “Silicon Valley”
- Bulgarian: “Силициева долина”
- Burmese: “ဆီလီကွန်ဗယ်လီ”
- Catalan: “Silicon Valley”
- Central Kurdish: “سیلیکۆن ڤالی”
- Chinese: “矽谷”
- Chinese: “硅谷”
- Chuvash: “Кремни лапамӗ”
- Croatian: “Silicijska dolina”
- Czech: “Silicon Valley”
- Danish: “Silicon Valley”
- Dotyali: “सिलिकन भ्याली”
- Dutch: “Silicon Valley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى سليكون”
- Esperanto: “Silicon Valley”
- Estonian: “Silicon Valley”
- Faroese: “Silicon Valley”
- Finnish: “Piilaakso”
- French: “Silicon Valley”
- Georgian: “სილიკონის ველი”
- Georgian: “სილიციუმის ველი”
- German: “Silicon Valley”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Πυριτίου”
- Greek: “Σίλικον Βάλεϊ”
- Greek: “Σίλικον Βάλλεϋ”
- Gujarati: “સિલિકૉન વૅલી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Si̍t-kuk”
- Hausa: “Silicon Valley”
- Hawaiian: “Silicon Valley”
- Hebrew: “עמק הסיליקון”
- Hindi: “सिलिकॉन वैली”
- Hungarian: “Szilícium-völgy”
- Icelandic: “Silicon Valley”
- Ido: “Siliko-Valo”
- Igbo: “Silicon valley”
- Inari Sami: “Tinnoleehi”
- Indonesian: “Silicon Valley”
- Irish: “Gleann an tSileacain”
- Italian: “Silicon Valley”
- Japanese: “シリコンバレー”
- Javanese: “Lembah Silikon”
- Kazakh: “Sïlïkon alqabı”
- Kazakh: “Силикон алқабы”
- Kazakh: “سىيلىيكون القابى”
- Kikuyu: “Silicon Valley”
- Korean: “실리콘 밸리”
- Korean: “실리콘밸리”
- Kurdish: “Geliyê Silîkonê”
- Latin: “Silicium Vallis”
- Latin: “Vallis Silicii”
- Latvian: “Silīcija ieleja”
- Lithuanian: “Silicio slėnis”
- Low German: “Silicon Valley”
- Macedonian: “Силициумска Долина”
- Malay: “Lembah Silikon”
- Malay: “Silicon Valley”
- Malayalam: “സിലിക്കൺ വാലി”
- Marathi: “सिलिकॉन व्हॅली”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Silicon Valley”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Si-lí-khóng soaⁿ-kok”
- Mongolian: “Цахиурын хөндий”
- Moroccan Arabic: “وادي السيليكون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silicon Valley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silicon Valley”
- Norwegian: “Silicon Valley”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Silicon Valley”
- Panjabi: “ਸਿਲੀਕਾਨ ਘਾਟੀ”
- Persian: “دره سیلیکون”
- Persian: “سیلیکون‌ولی”
- Polish: “Dolina Krzemowa”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Silício”
- Rakhine: “ဆီလီကွန်ဗယ်လီ(Silicon Valley)”
- Rakhine: “ဆီလီကွန်ဗယ်လီ”
- Romanian: “Silicon Valley”
- Russian: “Кремниевая долина”
- Russian: “Силиконовая долина”
- Scots: “Silicon Valley”
- Serbian: “Silicijumska dolina”
- Serbian: “Силицијумска долина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silicijska dolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silicijumska dolina”
- Slovak: “Silicon Valley”
- Slovenian: “Silicijeva dolina”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیلیکون والئی”
- Spanish: “Silicon Valley”
- Swedish: “Silicon Valley”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠟꠤꠇꠘ ꠜꠦꠟꠤ”
- Tamil: “சிலிக்கான் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
- Telugu: “సిలికాన్ వ్యాలి”
- Thai: “ซิลิคอนแวลลีย์”
- Turkish: “Silikon Vadisi”
- Ukrainian: “Кремнієва долина”
- Urdu: “سیلیکون ویلی”
- Uzbek: “Silicon vodiysi”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Silicon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silicon Valley”
- Welsh: “Dyffryn Silicon”
- Western Frisian: “Silicon Valley”
- Western Panjabi: “سلیکون ویلی”
- Wu Chinese: “硅谷”
- Yakut: “Силикон хочото”
- Yue Chinese: “矽谷”
- “Silicon Valley”
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