Claim: Silicon Valley is in a populous state.
Evidence: Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area , in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.
States range in population from just under 600,000 -LRB- Wyoming -RRB- to over 39 million -LRB- California -RRB- , and in area from 1214 sqmi -LRB- Rhode Island -RRB- to 663268 sqmi -LRB- Alaska -RRB-.