List of places with "Silicon" names
The following list contains places with "Silicon" names, that is, places with nicknames actually (or apparently) inspired by the Silicon Valley nickname given to part of the San Francisco Bay Area:
Africa
- Silicon Cape — Cape Town, South Africa
- Yabacon Valley — Lagos, Nigeria
- Silicon Mountain — Buea, Cameroon
- Silicon Savannah — Nairobi, Kenya
Asia
- Bit Valley — Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (a pun on Shibuya's literal translation of "Bitter Valley")
- Silicon Gulf — Davao City, Philippines
- Silicon Island — Kyushu, Japan
- Silicon Peninsula — Dalian, China
- Silicon Valley of China — Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)
- Silicon Valley of India (sometimes referred to as Silicon Plateau) — Bangalore
- Silicon Valley of Indonesia — Bandung, Indonesia
- Silicon Valley of South Korea — New Songdo City, Incheon
- Silicon Valley of Taiwan — Hsinchu, Taiwan
Europe
France
Germany
See also: German Silicon Valley
- BioCon Valley - Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania
- CFK Valley – Stade, Lower Saxony
- Isar Valley - Munich, Bavaria
- IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar / IT Valley - Rhine-Main-Neckar region
- Measurement Valley – Göttingen, Lower Saxony
- Medical Valley – Erlangen region, Bavaria
- Silicon Allee (English: Silicon Avenue) — Berlin (incl. WISTA)
- Silicon Saxony — Dresden, Saxony, Elbe river valley around the city
- Silicon Woods – Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate
- Solar Valley – Thalheim, Saxony-Anhalt
Ireland
Italy
The Netherlands
- Food Valley — The Netherlands
- Health Valley — The Netherlands
Norway
- SiliconFjord - Oslofjord-region
Switzerland
- Ticino Valley - Switzerland, technology cluster in the Lugano Area
Russia
- Russian Silicon Valley:
- Silicon Sloboda — Moscow, Russia
- Silicon Taiga — Akademgorodok, Russia
United Kingdom
- Cwm Silicon — Newport, Wales
- Silicon Alley — Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
- Silicon Beach - Bournemouth, England
- Silicon Canal — Birmingham, England — the area along the Digbeth Branch Canal from Aston Science Park, through Millennium Point to Digbeth.
- Silicon Corridor — the M4 corridor
- Silicon Dock — Belfast
- Silicon Fen — Cambridge, England[1]
- Silicon Forest — Newark, Nottinghamshire — Silicon Forest consists of various businesses from in and around the Newark and Sherwood area that specialise in technology and innovation.
- Silicon Glen — Central Belt, Scotland
- Silicon Gorge — Bristol, England
- Silicon Mall — London, England — the area between Pall Mall and Victoria in London
- Silicon Pier — Brighton, England
- Silicon Roundabout — the area around Old Street Roundabout in London
- Silicon Shipyard — Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Middlesbrough
- Silicon Spa — Leamington Spa, Warwickshire [2]
- Silicon Walk — Edinburgh, Scotland
Middle East
- Dubai Silicon Oasis — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Silicon Wadi — The coastal plain of Israel, stretching from Haifa to Tel Aviv and Rehovot and expanding inland to Jerusalem
North America
Canada
- Silicon Valley of the North - Ontario Highway 401 between Toronto and Waterloo[3]
- Silicon Valley North — Ottawa, Canada, though questionable since the 2009 bankruptcy of Nortel and the 2008 pull-out of Dell's call centre[4]
- Silicon Vineyard — Okanagan Valley, Canada
Mexico
- Mexican Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley South — Jalisco, Mexico
- Silicon Border — Mexicali, Mexico
United States
- Philicon Valley (also known as "Silicon Valley Forge") — Area close to Philadelphia, in the suburbs of Valley Forge and Wayne[5]
- Silicon Alley — Originally a portion of Manhattan in New York City, specifically Broadway, the Flatiron District, SoHo, and TriBeCa. Now encompasses the general NYC tech sphere.
- Silicon Anchor — Norfolk, Va–Virginia Beach metropolitan area
- Silicon Bayou — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Silicon Beach — Santa Monica, California and the Westside area of the Los Angeles metro, more specifically Culver City, Venice Beach, Westwood, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, Playa del Rey, and Marina del Rey; also used to refer to the San Diego area in the name of the 1980s software developer Silicon Beach Software
- Silicon Canal — The area of Seattle, Washington along the Fremont Cut.
- Silicon Coast — Orange County, California
- Silicon Desert — Chandler, Arizona
- Silicon Forest — Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Harbor — Charleston, South Carolina
- Silicon Hill — Washington, DC
- Silicon Hills — Austin, Texas
- Silicon Mountain — Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs)
- Silicon Prairie
- Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie — Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas
- Illinois Silicon Prairie — Chicago and Urbana-Champaign
- Midwest Silicon Prairie — Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City
- Wyoming Silicon Prairie, also called the "Silicon Range" — Jackson Hole
- Silicon Sandbar — Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Silicon shire — Eugene, Oregon
- Silicon Shore — Santa Barbara, California
- Silicon slopes — Utah, concentrated in the Wasatch Front
- Silicon Surf — Santa Cruz, California
- Silicon Swamp — Gainesville, Florida southwest toward Tampa, headquarters of Grooveshark and many other technology companies.
- Silicon Valley — San Jose, California (the original "Silicon" namesake)
- Silicon Valley of the Sierras — Nevada County, California
- Silicotton Valley — Huntsville, Alabama
- Silicon Trailer - Bouchard Residence, Norridgewock, ME
Oceania
Australia
- Silicon Mallee — Adelaide, Australia (Mallee, an Australian aboriginal word for the land area around Adelaide covered by low, scrubby dwarf eucalyptus 'mallee' vegetation
- Silicon St, Sydney An inner city colloquial district including Ultimo/Pyrmont along Harris St spanning 10 km2 from UTS to Google including Fishburners
- Silicon Beach, a term used by those in the Australian startup community to refer to the startup ecosystem within Australian cities, in particular by Meetup groups like Silicon Beach Sydney and Silicon Beach Adelaide
New Zealand
- Silicon Welly — Wellington in New Zealand
South America
- Brazilian Silicon Valley — Campinas, Brazil
- Lima Valley — Lima, Peru
See also
References
- ↑ "BBC News - Silicon Britain: Inside the country's tech clusters". 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
- ↑ "Silicon Spa;". Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ↑ Barrenechea, Mark (2014-05-16). "Why Ontario is the Silicon Valley of the North". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
- ↑ "Is Ottawa still Silicon Valley North?". 29 June 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ↑ "Siliconia -- Part 1".
External links
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