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San Jose at a Glance San Jose At A Glance San Jose is... • California’s oldest civilian settlement, founded in 1777. • The site of California’s first state capital. • Northern California’s largest city with a population of 1,042,094 (2016). • The third largest city in California. One of the • The tenth largest city in the nation. • The largest concentration of technology expertise safest Big Cities in the world with over 6,600 companies. in America. Amazing, but True • San Jose boasts the highest median household income in the nation. • More than half of the adults living in Silicon Valley hold a college degree. • 40% of San Jose residents are foreign born. • San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population of any city outside Vietnam. Residents • San Jose leads the nation in patent generation. speak more • San Jose has one of only three Japantowns in the U.S. • San Jose is the site of the world’s first radio broadcasting station. than 56 • Mount Hamilton is the world’s first permanently occupied mountaintop observatory and houses the world’s third languages. largest optical refracting telescope. Stay and Play Like A Local • Wine Spectator noted the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Region as the “most underappreciated appellation in the world.” • Lake Cunningham Skate Park is California’s largest skate park. • Discovery Meadows park is home to the world’s largest Monopoly board. • The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is the first museum of it’s kind in the U.S. • San Jose has the nation’s first Vietnamese Heritage Garden and Historical Museum. • San Jose houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in western North America. • The Tech Museum of Innovation opened the first interactive bioengineering exhibit in the U.S. The sun shines • The San Jose Earthquakes soccer stadium has the largest outdoor bar in North America. an average of • With over 160 rooms, Winchester Mystery House is one of the largest Victorian homes in the U.S. 300 days a year. sanjose.org 1.
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