List of places with "Silicon" names
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The following is a list of places with "Silicon" names, that is, places whose names were (or seemed to be) inspired by the Silicon Valley nickname given to part of the San Francisco Bay Area:
- Brazilian Silicon Valley - Campinas, Brazil
- Cwm Silicon - Wales
- Mexican Silicon Valley - Jalisco, Mexico
- Silicon Valley North - Kanata, Ontario, Canada and Ottawa, Canada
- Silicon Valley of India (sometimes referred to as Silicon Plateau)- Bangalore
- Silicon Valley of Sweden - Kista
- Silicon Valley of Europe - Dublin
- Silicon Alley - New York, New York, Broadway, the Flatiron District, TriBeCa and SoHo
- Silicon Alley - Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Silicon Corridor - The corridor created by the M4 motorway between Bristol and London, including Swindon, Reading and Slough, United Kingdom
- Silicon Fen - Cambridge, England
- Silicon Forest - Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Glen - Scotland
- Silicon Gorge - The triangle of Bristol, Swindon and Gloucester, bounded by the M4 and M5 motorways, United Kingdom
- Silicon Gulf - Davao, Philippines
- Silicon Hills - Austin, Texas, United States
- Silicon Prairie - the region around either Schaumburg, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, or Ames, Iowa
- Silicon Sentier - France
- Silicon Wadi - Israel
- Silicon Wedding - Wedding, Berlin, Germany
