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Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

The "valley" in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns, where the region has been traditionally centered.

The region has expanded to include the southern half of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County, and southern portions of the East Bay in Alameda County.

Palo Alto (from palo, literally "stick", colloquially "tree", and alto "tall"; meaning: "tall tree") is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park.

It is named after a coast redwood tree called El Palo Alto.

Cupertino is a U.S. city in Santa Clara County, California, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The population was 58,302 as of the 2010 census.

Forbes ranked it as one of the most educated small towns, with local public schools ranking highly in the country.

It is known as the home of the Apple Inc. corporate headquarters.

Sunnyvale (or) is a city located in Santa Clara County, California.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 140,095.

Visa Inc. (or) (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.

It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards and debit cards.

Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; rather, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers.

In 2015, the Nilson Report, a publication that tracks the credit card industry, found that Visa’s global network (known as VisaNet) processed 100 billion transactions with a total volume of US$6.8 trillion.