San Jose,officially the City of San José,is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233,it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego,and the 13th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay,San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area,with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018.
The Santa Clara Valley is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from San Francisco to Hollister. The longitudinal valley is bordered on the west by the Santa Cruz Mountains and on the east by the Diablo Range;the two coastal ranges meet south of Hollister. The San Francisco Bay borders the valley to the north,and fills much of the northern third of the valley. The valley floor is an alluvial plain that formed in the graben between the San Andreas Fault to the west and the Hayward and Calaveras faults to the east. Within the valley and surrounding the bay on three sides are the urban communities of San Mateo County,Santa Clara County,and Alameda County,while the narrow southern reaches of the valley extend into rural San Benito County to Hollister. In practical terms,the central portion of the Santa Clara Valley is often considered by itself,contained entirely within Santa Clara County.
The Mercury News is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose,California,in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group,a subsidiary of Media News Group which in turn is controlled by Alden Global Capital,a vulture fund. As of March 2013,it was the fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States,with a daily circulation of 611,194. As of 2018,the paper has a circulation of 324,500 daily and 415,200 on Sundays. As of 2021,this further declined. The Bay Area News Group no longer reports its circulation,but rather "readership". For 2021,they reported a "readership" of 312,700 adults daily.
The SAP Center at San Jose is an indoor arena located in San Jose,California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League,for which the arena has earned the nickname "The Shark Tank".
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose,California,United States. Downtown is one of the largest tech clusters in Silicon Valley,as well as the cultural and political center of San Jose.
Ronald R. Gonzales is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party,who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose,California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic to serve as Mayor of San Jose since 1845.
Metro,also known as Metro Silicon Valley,is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose,California-based Weeklys media group for four decades,a period during which its readership area became known as Silicon Valley.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose City Council from 2005 to 2014,representing District 7,and she additionally served as Vice-Mayor from 2011 to 2014. She was the first Vietnamese-American elected to the city council.
San Jose Diridon station is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose,California. It also serves as a major intermodal transit center for Santa Clara County and Silicon Valley. The station is named after former Santa Clara County Supervisor Rod Diridon Sr.
Charles Rufus Reed is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th mayor of San Jose,California from 2007 to 2015.
San Jose,California,is the third largest city in the state,and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California,with a population of 1,021,795.
San JoséCity Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose,California. Located in Downtown San Jose,it was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower,an iconic glass rotunda,and a city council chamber wing,laid out within a two-block-long public square known as San JoséCivic Plaza. The tower rises 285 feet (87 m) above the plaza,making it the fourth tallest building in San Jose.
The San Jose McEnery Convention Center is a convention center in Downtown San Jose,California. The 550,000-square-foot (51,000 m2) facility is the largest convention center in Silicon Valley. It is known for hosting high-profile technology conferences and events like the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and Facebook F8,as well as non-tech events like FanimeCon and Silicon Valley Comic Con.
Berryessa/North San Joséstation is an intermodal transit center located in the Berryessa district of San Jose,California,United States. The station is served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) buses. The transit center opened for bus service on December 28,2019,and subsequently for BART service on June 13,2020. The station is the southern terminus of the Orange and Green lines.
The Silicon Valley BART extension is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County. Planned since at least 1981,the project has seven stations in three sequential phases.
The South Bay Labor Council,AFL–CIO (SBLC),is the labor council of Santa Clara and San Benito counties in California's Bay Area. The SBLC is affiliated with the AFL–CIO,one of the national labor confederations of the United States. The SBLC represents over 100,000 men and women of 101 unions in Silicon Valley.
Samuel Theodore Liccardo is an American politician from California who served as the 65th mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Liccardo was elected mayor in November 2014. He was reelected in 2018 with 75.8% of the vote. As the leader of the California Big City Mayors Coalition,Liccardo advocated on statewide issues including homelessness and COVID-19 response.
The following is a timeline of the history of San Jose,California,United States.
The 1982 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 8,1982,to elect the mayor of San Jose,California. Tom McEnery was elected. Because McEnrery won an outright majority in the initial round of the election,no runoff election needed to be held.
