San Jose, California

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San Jose is a city in and the county seat of Santa Clara County. The population was 945,942 at the 2010 census. It is the largest city in Northern California, the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States.

Originally known as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, it was founded on November 29, 1777 as the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later became Alta California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations at San Francisco and Monterey. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose was incorporated as a city and served as the state capital for two years. After over 150 years as an agricultural center, increased demand for housing from soldiers and other veterans returning from World War II and starting families, as well as aggressive expansion during the 1950s and 1960s led to San Jose being a bedroom community for Silicon Valley in the 1970s, which attracted more businesses to the city. By the 1990s, San Jose's central location within the booming technology industry in the area earned the city the nickname as the Capital of Silicon Valley.

In the late 1980s, after four decades of heavy development and population growth, San Jose surpassed San Francisco as the third most populous city in California.

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The name translates to Saint Joseph (the husband of the Virgan Mary).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California
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Coordinates:   37°17'43"N   121°49'22"W

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