San Jose, Californie

San Jose (pronounced /ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ/ (deprecatit template); meanin St. Joseph in Spaingie) is the third-lairgest ceety in Californie, the tent-lairgest in the US, an the coonty seat o Santa Clara Coonty. It is locatit at the soothren end o San Francisco Bay. The San Jose/Silicon Valley aurie is a major component o the greater San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Aurie (CSA), a region o nearly 7.5 million fowk. Ance a smaw fermin ceety, San Jose experienced rapid growth frae the 1950s tae the present. San Jose is nou the lairgest ceety in the San Francisco Bay Area in terms o population, land aurie, an industrial development. The US Census Bureau estimatit the population at 964,695 as o 2009. San Jose wis foondit on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first toun in the Spaingie colony o Nueva Californie, which later became Alta Californie. The ceety served as a farmin community toae support Spaingie militar installations at San Francisco an Monterey. When Californie gained statehuid in 1850, San Jose servit as its first caipital. Efter mair nor 150 years as an agricultural center, San Jose experienced increased demand for hoosin frae sodgers an veterans returnin frae Warld War II. San Jose continued its aggressive expansion durin the 1950s an 1960s bi annexing mair land aurie. The rapid growth o the heich-technology an electronics industries further acceleratit the transition frae an agricultural center, tae an urbanized metropolitan aurie. The Santa Clara Valley wis the last (an lairgest) contiguous aurie o undeveloped land surroondin the San Francisco Bay. Bi the 1990s, San Jose's location athin the booming local technology industry earned the ceety its nickname, Caipital o Silicon Valley. References