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San Jose is the 3rd-largest city in California, and the 10th-largest in the country. It is held within Santa Clara County. Recently it has held the title of The Safest Big City in America and is located in Silicon Valley (south end of the San Francisco Bay). With a population of almost one million San Jose is the largest city in Northern California. It was once a farming city, but by 1950 San Jose attracted suburban newcomers in new housing developments and became a thriving urban center of California. San Jose is sometimes called L.A. North, because of its similarity to Los Angeles.

The city was originally known as El Pueblo de San Jos? de Guadalupe. It was founded in 1777 as the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. The city was a farming community supporting Spanish military installations at San Francisco and Monterey. After California was granted statehood in 1850, San Jose was its first capital. By the 1990s, as the central location within the booming technology industry it earned the nickname as the Capital of Silicon Valley.

In the late 80s San Jose surpassed San Francisco as the 3rd most populous city in California.