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Does santaclara belong to a county or a city in the United States?
The Chinese name of Santaclara is Santa Clara. Santa Clara County was one of the original counties when California 1850 was founded. It is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the county seat is San Jose.

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History:

Santa Clara County was named after the Santa Clara Church founded in 1777. The name Santa Clara commemorates the Italian word "Santa Clara of assisi" (English for Assisi). Santa Clara is the Spanish name for this name.

In the early days, the agricultural economy developed by Spanish missionaries was the main theme of Santa Clara County's economic development, which lasted for two centuries. After that, Santa Clara County shifted the focus of economic development to the science and technology industry. 1939, Hewlett-Packard Company was established. In 1950s, Fairchild Semiconductor Company and a number of innovative technology companies also settled in Santa Clara County.

Geography:

According to the American census, Santa Clara County has a total area of 3,377 square kilometers, including 3,343 square kilometers of land area and 34 square kilometers of water area, accounting for 1.02% of the total area. The San Andreas fault runs through Santa Clara County along the southern Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Santa Clara county