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County in California, United States
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The South Bay is the part of the Bay Area to the south of San Francisco Bay and to the southeast of the San Francisco Peninsula in California. The South Bay is the core of Silicon Valley, where many famous technology companies are located.
San Jose International Airport (SJC): There are flights from Japan, Hawaii, Mexico, and many cities in the United States.
Read in the guideAlthough this area is best explored by car, there is public transit from VTA (light rail and buses), Caltrain (commuter trains), and BART (subway).
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home to eBay.
home to Apple.
known as the "Garlic Capital of the World."
Los Altos is in Santa Clara County, in the South Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The city means "The Heights" or "Foothills" in Spanish.
Los Altos Hills is a town in Santa Clara County, California. Considered to be one of the "richest" towns in the United States, Los Altos Hills is known for its minimum lot size of one acre (0.4 ha) and large homes.
home of Netflix, it is the historic agricultural center with Victorian-era houses and brick buildings, now a major suburb of San Jose.
Milpitas is in the South Bay region of the Bay Area of California. It’s between San Jose and Fremont and is home to a rapidly-growing population.
major city in Silicon Valley, home to Google
Morgan Hill is a city in Santa Clara County, California, at the southern tip of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 45,000 in 2020, Morgan Hill is primarily a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, as well as the seat for several high-tech companies.
adjacent to Stanford University, home to VMware and Hewlett-Packard as well as many startups.
the largest city in the Bay Area, known as the "Capital of Silicon Valley."
one of the oldest settlements in the area, now home to Intel and many others.
Saratoga is a city in Silicon Valley at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay.
Originally home to many orchards, it is now home to many multi-billion dollar companies such as Yahoo and LinkedIn.
Lick Observatory, at the peak of Mount Hamilton, is in California.
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