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:

Contents 1 Africa 2 Asia 3 Australasia 4 Europe 4.1 United Kingdom 5 South America 6 North America 6.1 United States 7 See also 8 External links

Africa

• Silicon Cape — Cape Town, South Africa

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

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

Europe

• 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

United Kingdom

• Cwm Silicon — Newport, Wales
• Silicon Alley — Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
• Silicon Beach — Brighton, England
• Silicon Corridor — the corridor created by the M4 motorway between Bristol and London, including Swindon, Reading and Slough, England
• 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

South America

• Brazilian Silicon Valley — Campinas, Brazil
• Lima Valley — Lima, Peru

North America

• Silicon Valley North — Kanata, Ontario, Canada and Ottawa, Canada
• Silicon Vineyard — Okanagan Valley, Canada
• Mexican Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley South — Jalisco, Mexico

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

See also

• Research-Intensive Clusters

External links

• Comprehensive list of "Silicon" names