Santa Clara County
county in California, United States
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Santa Clara County is a county located in California that encompasses major cities and communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is significant as the home of Silicon Valley, the global center of the technology and innovation industry.
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Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California.
The county seat and largest city with a population of 997,368 is San Jose, the 12th-most populous city in the United States, California's third-most populous city, and the most populous city in Northern California.