Santa Clara County, California

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Santa Clara County (commonly referred to as the South Bay) is a northern county in the U.S. state of California. It is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. The county is the most populous in Northern California and the sixth-most populous in California, with 1,936,259 residents as of the 2020 census. The county seat and the largest city in the county is the city of San Jose. The United States Census Bureau groups Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County into the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 2,000,468 people. This MSA is included in the broader San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Containing significant portions of Silicon Valley, the South Bay is an economic center for high technology, and had the third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the world as of 2015 behind Zürich and Oslo, according to the Brookings Institution. Located on the southern coast of San Francisco Bay, the...

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