Santa Clara County, California

United States

Santa Clara County, California connects to 2667 places across 9 topics through 59 Bunkabop connections, with government, industry, and nature as the dominant themes. The county's technology sector anchors much of its reach: Varian Associates and Fairchild Semiconductor established roots here in the late 1940s and 1950s, and today the county hosts around 6,500 high-tech companies, including Apple, Google, Intel, and Nvidia. In 2008, it joined San Francisco and Los Angeles as the first governmental entities in the world to sue for same-sex marriage.