List of places with "Silicon" names
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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:
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[edit] Africa
[edit] Asia
- Silicon Peninsula — Dalian, China
- Silicon Gulf — Davao, Philippines
- 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 South Korea — New Songdo City, Incheon
- Silicon Valley of Indonesia — Bandung, Indonesia
- Silicon Valley of Taiwan — Hsinchu, Taiwan
- 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
- Silicon Taiga — Akademgorodok, Russia
[edit] Australasia
- Silicon Mallee — Adelaide, Australia (Mallee, an Australian aboriginal word for the land area around Adelaide covered by low, scrubby dwarf eucalyptus 'mallee' vegetation
- Silicon Welly — Wellington in New Zealand
[edit] Europe
- Silicon Allee — Berlin
- Silicon Saxony — Elbe river valley around Dresden, Germany
- Silicon Sloboda — Moscow, Russia
- Russian Silicon Valley
- Zelenograd, Moscow (since 1962), early Soviet Silicon Valley
- Russian Silicon Valley in Skolkovo, Moscow (since 2009)
- Silicon Valley of Sweden — Kista
- Silicon Valley of Europe — Dublin, Ireland
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cwm Silicon — Newport, Wales
- Silicon Alley — Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
- Silicon Beach — Brighton, England
- Silicon Corridor — the M4 corridor
- Silicon Fen — Cambridge, England
- Silicon Glen — Central Belt, Scotland
- Silicon Gorge — Bristol, England
- Silicon Mall — London, England — the area between Pall Mall and Victoria in London
- Silicon Roundabout — the area around Old Street Roundabout in London
[edit] South America
- Brazilian Silicon Valley — Campinas, Brazil
- Lima Valley — Lima, Peru
[edit] North America
- Silicon Valley North — Kanata, Ontario, Canada and Ottawa, Canada
- Silicon Vineyard — Okanagan Valley, Canada
- Mexican Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley South — Jalisco, Mexico
[edit] United States
- Silicon Alley — A portion of Lower Manhattan in New York City, more specifically Broadway, the Flatiron District, TriBeCa and SoHo
- Silicone Valley — San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles (referring to pornography production rather than tech industry)
- Silicon Beach — Santa Cruz, California
- Silicon Beach — DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York
- Silicon Beach — Santa Barbara, California
- Silicon Desert — Chandler, Arizona
- Silicon Forest — Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Hill — Washington, DC
- Silicon Valley — San Jose, California (the original "Silicon" namesake)
- Silicon Hills — Austin, Texas
- Silicon Prairie — Two areas in Illinois:
- Chicago, especially its western suburbs
- Champaign–Urbana, in the east central part of the state
- Silicon Prairie — Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, United States
- Silicon Slopes — Utah, concentrated in the Wasatch Front
- Silicon Sandbar — Cape Cod, Massachusetts[citation needed]
