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.Photo: Olga.Mach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Stanford Stadium
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Stanford Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California.HP Garage
Photo: Harshalgawande, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard was founded.
Localities in the Area
Palo Alto
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palo Alto is a bustling suburb in Santa Clara County south of the city of San Francisco.
Menlo Park
Photo: Annette Teng, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Menlo Park is a suburban, tree-lined community in San Mateo County midway between the major cities of San Francisco and San Jose.
Stanford
Photo: Baltakatei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stanford is a census-designated place in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States.
Silicon Valley
- Type: Region
- Description: subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area known for its concentration of high-technology industry
- Categories: technopole, subregion and locality
- Location: Santa Clara County, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.443° or 37° 26' 35" northLongitude
-122.1545° or 122° 9' 16" westElevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open Location Code
849VCRVW+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 5368437129OpenStreetMap Feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
6940309Wikidata ID
Q163820Silicon Valley Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- Basque: Silicon Valley
- Belarusian: Крамянёвая даліна
- Belarusian: Крэмніевая даліна
- Belarusian: Сыліконавая даліна
- Belarusian: Сіліконавая даліна
- Bengali: সিলিকন ভ্যালি
- 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
- English: Silicon Valley, CA
- English: Silicon Valley, California
- 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
- Hausa: Si̍t-kuk
- Hebrew: עמק הסיליקון
- Hindi: सिलिकॉन वैली
- Hungarian: Szilícium-völgy
- Icelandic: Kísildalur
- Icelandic: Silicon Valley
- Igbo: Ndagwurugwu
- Igbo: Silicon valley
- Inari Sami: Tinnoleehi
- Indonesian: Lembah Silikon
- Indonesian: Silicon Valley
- Irish: Gleann an tSileacain
- Italian: Silicon Valley
- Japanese: シリコンバレー
- Japanese: シリコンバーレー
- 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: ニューリッチ
- Kazakh: Sïlïkon alqabı
- Kazakh: Силикон алқабы
- Kazakh: سىيلىيكون القابى
- Kikuyu: Silicon Valley
- Korean: 실리콘밸리
- Korean: 실리콘 밸리
- Korean: 실리콘 벨리
- Kurdish: Geliyê Silîkonê
- Latin: Silicium Vallis
- Latin: Vallis Silicii
- Latvian: Silikona ieleja
- Latvian: Silīcija ieleja
- Lithuanian: Silicio slėnis
- Low German: Silicon Valley
- Macedonian: Силициумска Долина
- 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: Silicon Valley
- Norwegian Bokmål: Silicon Valley
- Norwegian Bokmål: Silisiumdalen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Silicon Valley
- Occitan (post 1500): Silicon Valley
- Panjabi: ਸਿਲੀਕਾਨ ਘਾਟੀ
- Persian: دره سیلیکان
- Persian: دره سیلیکون
- Persian: درهٔ سیلیکان
- 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)
- 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
- Spanish: Silicon Valley (California)
- Spanish: Valle del Silicio
- Swedish: Kiseldalen
- Swedish: Silicon Valley
- 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 Silicon
- Vietnamese: Thung lũng Điện tử
- 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
Other Places Named Silicon Valley
In the Area
- Community CenterNeighbourhood
- Downtown NorthNeighbourhood
- SouthgateNeighbourhood
- Crescent ParkNeighbourhood
- Old Palo AltoNeighbourhood
- Embarcadero OaksNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Bay Area
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Silicon Valley. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.