Situated in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it fits approximately the geographical areas of San Mateo County and Santa Clara County. San Jose is Silicon Valley’s largest city, the 3rd-largest in California, and the 10th-largest in the U.S.; other significant Silicon Valley cities include Cupertino, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Redwood City. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the 3rd-highest GDP per capita worldwide after Zurich in Switzerland and Oslo in Norway.

Below is the view of the United States from Silicon Valley, a parody of the New Yorker cover about how New Yorkers see the world (1976). The map designed by Kirby Scudder and first published as the cover for Pacific Ventures (1986) illustrates how Silicon Valley residents see the rest of the U.S.

If you liked this map, you might also like the 1882 pictorial map of Silicon Valley.

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