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.