San Jose[A] (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ,-ˈseɪ/; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse];
Spanish for '"Saint Joseph"'), officially San José,[B] is the
cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and the
largest city in Northern California, by both population and area.San
Jose[A] (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ,-ˈseɪ/; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; Spanish
for '"Saint Joseph"'), officially San José,[B] is the cultural,
financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city
in Northern California, by both population and area.With an estimated
2019 population of 1,021,795, it is the third-most populous city in
California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth-most
populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa
Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose
covers an area of 179.97 square miles (466.1 km2). San Jose is the
county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in
California and one of the most affluent counties in the United States.
San Jose is the main component of the San Joseâ€"Sunnyvaleâ€"Santa
Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of
around 2 million residents in 2018. It is also the most populous city
in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San
Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million
and 8.7 million people respectively.San Jose is notable as a center of
innovation, for its affluence,[26][27][28] Mediterranean climate, and
extremely high cost of living.[29] Its location within the booming
high tech industry as a cultural, political, and economic center has
earned the city the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley". San Jose is
one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world,
and has the third-highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zürich,
Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings
Institution.[30] The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the most
millionaires and the most billionaires in the United States per
capita.[31] With a median home price of $1,085,000,[32] San Jose has
the most expensive housing market in the country and the fifth most
expensive housing market in the world, according to the 2017
Demographia International Housing Affordability
Survey.[33][34][35][36] Major global tech companies including Cisco
Systems, eBay, Adobe Inc., PayPal, Broadcom, Samsung, Acer, Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, and Zoom maintain their headquarters in San Jose,
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