California
Bay Area
Santa Clara County

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley 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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  • Type: Region
  • Description: region in northern of U.S. state of California
  • Also known as: “Silicon Valley, CA” and “Silicon Valley, California”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include HP Garage and Hoover Institution.

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

College
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The 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.

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 Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

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is a bustling suburb in south of the city of . 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.

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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.

Hamlet
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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.

Silicon Valley

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
node 5368437129
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
6940309
Wiki­data ID
Q163820
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Silicon Valley” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Silicon Valley”
  • Arabic: “Silicon Valley”
  • Arabic: “سيلكون فالي”
  • Arabic: “سيليكون فالي”
  • Arabic: “وادي السليكون”
  • Arabic: “وادي السيلكون”
  • 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”
  • Belarusian: “Сіліконавая даліна”
  • Belarusian: “Сыліконавая даліна”
  • Bengali: “সিলিকন ভ্যালি”
  • Betawi: “Lebak Silikon”
  • Bosnian: “Silicijska dolina”
  • Bosnian: “Silikonska dolina”
  • Breton: “Silicon Valley”
  • Bulgarian: “Силиконова долина”
  • Bulgarian: “Силиконовата долина”
  • Bulgarian: “Силициева долина”
  • Bulgarian: “Силициевата долина”
  • Burmese: “ဆီလီကွန်တောင်ကြား”
  • Burmese: “ဆီလီကွန်ဗယ်လီ”
  • Catalan: “Silicon Valley”
  • Chinese: “Si-lí-khóng soaⁿ-kok”
  • Chinese: “矽谷”
  • Chinese: “硅谷”
  • Chuvash: “Кремни лапамӗ”
  • Croatian: “Silicijska dolina”
  • Croatian: “Silikonska dolina”
  • Czech: “Křemíkové údolí”
  • Czech: “Silicon Valley”
  • Danish: “Silicon Valley”
  • Dotyali: “सिलिकन भ्याली”
  • Dutch: “Siliciumvallei”
  • Dutch: “Silicon Valley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وادى سليكون”
  • Esperanto: “Silicia Valo”
  • Esperanto: “Silicon Valley”
  • Estonian: “Räniorg”
  • Estonian: “Silicon Valley”
  • Faroese: “Silicon Valley”
  • Finnish: “Piilaakso”
  • Finnish: “Silicon Valley”
  • French: “Silicon Valley”
  • Georgian: “სილიკონის ველი”
  • Georgian: “სილიციუმის ველი”
  • German: “Silicon Valley”
  • German: “Siliconvalley”
  • German: “Stanford Industrial Park”
  • Greek: “Silicon Valley”
  • Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Πυριτίου”
  • Greek: “Σίλικον Βάλεϊ”
  • Greek: “Σίλικον Βάλεϋ”
  • 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: “Kísildalur”
  • Icelandic: “Silicon Valley”
  • Ido: “Siliko-Valo”
  • Igbo: “Ndagwurugwu”
  • Igbo: “Silicon valley”
  • Inari Sami: “Tinnoleehi”
  • Indonesian: “Silicon Valley”
  • Irish: “Gleann an tSileacain”
  • Italian: “Silicon Valley”
  • Japanese: “シリコン・ヴァレー”
  • Japanese: “シリコン・バレー”
  • Japanese: “シリコンヴァレー”
  • Japanese: “シリコンバーレー”
  • Japanese: “シリコンバレー”
  • Japanese: “ニューリッチ”
  • Javanese: “Lembah Silikon”
  • Kazakh: “Sïlïkon alqabı”
  • Kazakh: “Силикон алқабы”
  • Kazakh: “سىيلىيكون القابى”
  • Kikuyu: “Silicon Valley”
  • Korean: “실리콘 밸리”
  • Korean: “실리콘 벨리”
  • Korean: “실리콘밸리”
  • Kurdish: “Geliyê Silîkonê”
  • Latin: “Silicium Vallis”
  • Latin: “Vallis Silicii”
  • Latvian: “Silīcija ieleja”
  • Latvian: “Silikona 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: “سيليكون ڤالي”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “وادي السيليكون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silicon Valley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silisiumdalen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silicon Valley”
  • Norwegian: “Silicon Valley”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Silicon Valley”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿਲੀਕਾਨ ਘਾਟੀ”
  • Persian: “دره سیلیکان”
  • Persian: “درهٔ سیلیکان”
  • Persian: “دره سیلیکون”
  • Persian: “درهٔ سیلیکون”
  • Persian: “دره ی سیلیکون”
  • Persian: “دره‌ی سیلیکون”
  • Persian: “سیلیکان ولی”
  • Persian: “سیلیکن ولی”
  • Persian: “سیلیکون ولی”
  • Persian: “سیلیکون‌ولی”
  • Persian: “یوپلاس”
  • Polish: “Dolina Krzemowa”
  • Polish: “Krzemowa Dolina”
  • Polish: “Silicon Valley”
  • Portuguese: “Silicon Valley”
  • 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: “Silikonove doline”
  • Serbian: “Силиконска Долина”
  • Serbian: “Силицијумска долина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silicijumska dolina”
  • Slovak: “Kremíkové údolie”
  • Slovak: “Silicon Valley”
  • Slovenian: “Silicijeva dolina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیلیکون والئی”
  • Spanish: “Silicon Valley (California)”
  • Spanish: “Silicon Valley”
  • Spanish: “Valle del Silicio”
  • Swedish: “Kiseldalen”
  • Swedish: “Silicon Valley”
  • Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠟꠤꠇꠘ ꠜꠦꠟꠤ”
  • Tamil: “சிலிகான் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
  • Tamil: “சிலிக்கான் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
  • Telugu: “సిలికాన్ వ్యాలి”
  • Thai: “ซิลิคอนวัลเลย์”
  • Thai: “ซิลิคอนแวลลีย์”
  • Turkish: “Silikon Vadisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Компанії Силіконової долини”
  • Ukrainian: “Кремнієва долина”
  • Ukrainian: “Силіконова долина”
  • Urdu: “سیلیکون ویلی”
  • Uzbek: “Silicon vodiysi”
  • Vietnamese: “Silicon Valley”
  • Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Điện tử”
  • 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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