Welcome to San Jose, California  America’s 10th largest city and capital of  Silicon Valley.

San Jose Fun Facts

• San Jose leads the nation in patent generation.
• San Jose was California’s first state capital.
• San Jose is the third largest city in California.
• San Jose is the largest concentration of technology expertise in the world with over 6,600 companies.
• San Jose is the 12th largest city in the U.S
• San Jose has one of only three Japan towns in the U.S
• San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population of any city outside Vietnam.
• San Jose has the nation’s first Vietnamese Heritage Garden and Historical Museum.
• San Jose is the site of the world’s first radio broadcasting station.
• Mount Hamilton in San Jose is the world’s first permanently occupied mountaintop observatory and houses the world’s third-largest optical refracting telescope.
• San Jose houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in western North America at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
• The San Jose Earthquakes soccer stadium has the largest outdoor bar in North America.
• Discovery Meadow Park in San Jose is home to the world’s largest Monopoly board.
• Residents speak more than 56 languages.
• 40% of San Jose residents are foreign born.
• The Tech Interactive in San Jose opened the first interactive bioengineering exhibit in the U.S.
• With over 160 rooms, Winchester Mystery House is one of the largest Victorian homes in the U.S.