Siliconia

Nicknames for cities and areas with a heavy concentration of high-tech firms. "Siliconia" began as appropriations of names beginning with "Silicon" in areas outside of Silicon Valley; the names are meant to capture something unique about the area's regional character.
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  • Automation Alley - Oakland County, Michigan
  • Billy-can Valley - Arnhem Land, northern Australia
  • Biotech Beach - Orange County, California
  • Bit Valley - area in Japan
  • Bollywood - Delhi, India
  • CWM Silicon - Newport, Gwent, South Wales
  • Cyberabad - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Cyberchella Valley - Coachella Valley from Palm Springs to Thermal, California
  • Cyber District - Boston, Massachusetts
  • Digital Coast - Coast south from Ventura, California
  • Digital Rhine - Over-the-Rhine area in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Dot Bowl - another name for Silicon Valley, California
  • Dot Commonwealth - Massachusetts
  • DSP Valley - area around the University of Leuven, Belgium
  • e-coast - Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  • e-country - Fairfax County, Virginia
  • Flanders Language Valley - area between Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium
  • Hollywired - Hollywood, California
  • India's Silicon Valley - Bangalore, India
  • Intelligent Island - Singapore
  • Kiselsta - Kista, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden
  • Media Del Rey - Santa Monica / Marina Del Rey, California
  • Multimedia Gulch - San Francisco, California
  • Multimedia Super Corridor - area south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Philicon Valley - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Silicon Alley - lower Manhattan, New York City, NY
  • Silicon Alps - Carinthia, Austria
  • Silicon Bayou - Louisiana (and) Boca Raton, Florida
  • Silicon Beach - Santa Barbara, California
  • Silicon Bog - the midlands of Ireland
  • Silicon Corridor - Chicago, Illinois, specifically the the city's western suburbs along I-88
  • Silicon City - Chicago, Illinois
  • Silicon Desert - Phoenix, Arizona
  • Silicon Ditch - the M4 Corridor, west out of London, England
  • Silicon Dominion - Virginia
  • Silicon Fen - Cambridge, England
  • Silicon Freeway - Southern California
  • Silicon Forest - Portland, Oregon and the area around Route 26, west of Portland
  • Silicon Forest Australia - eastern Australia
  • Silicon Glacier - the region around Kalispel, Montana
  • Silicon Glen - the region around Livingston, Scotland
  • Silicon Gulch - San Jose, California (and) Austin, Texas
  • Silicon Hill - the area around Hudson, Massachusetts
  • Silicon Hills - the hills west of downtown Austin, Texas
  • Silicon Hollow - Oak Ridge, Tennesee
  • Silicon Holler - north Virginia & suburbs of Washington D.C.
  • Silicon Island - St. John, Virgin Islands (and) Long Island, New York (and) Alameda, California (and) Taiwan, Republic of China (and) Whidbey Island, Washington
  • Silicon Isle - Ireland
  • Silicon Mesa - north Albuqueque and the Rio Rancho area of New Mexico
  • Silicon Mountain - Mountaintop, Pennsylvania (and) Colorado Springs, Colorado (and) Hudson, Massachusetts
  • Silicon Necklace - suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Silicon Orchard - Wenatchee Valley, Washington
  • Silicon Parkway - the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey (and) the area around the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways, Connecticut
  • Silicon Plain - Kempele, Finland
  • Silicon Plains - Lincoln, Nebraska (and) Atadim Park, in north Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Silicon Plantation - Virginia
  • Silicon Plateau - Bangalore, India
  • Silicon Polder - The Netherlands
  • Silicon Prairie - Lincoln, Nebraska (and) Kansas City, Missouri (and) Payne County, Oklahoma (and) the area around Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota (and) Chicago, Illinois (and) Richardson, Texas (and) Urbana/Champaign area of Illinois (and) Sioux Falls vicinity, South Dakota (and) Iowa City / Fairfield vicinity, Iowa (and) Ed Bluestein Boulevard, Austin, Texas
  • Silicon Rain Forest - Seattle, Washington
  • Silicon River - the Kansas City - Columbia - St. Louis Corridor in Missouri
  • Silicon Sandbar - Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Silicon Saxony - eastern state of Saxony, Germany
  • Silicon Seaboard - Richmond, Virginia
  • Silicon Snowbank - area around Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
  • Silicon Spires - Oxford, England
  • Silicon Swamp - Indiantown, Florida (and) Perry, Florida
  • Silicon Triangle - area around Raleigh / Durham, NC
  • Silicon Tundra - area around Ottawa, Canada (and) area around Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Silicon Valais - Valais, Switzerland
  • Silicon Valley - San Jose, California and surroundings
  • Silicon Valley North - area around Ottawa, Canada
  • Silicon Valley of the East - Penang State, Malaysia
  • Silicon Valley Forge - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Silicon Village - North Adams, Massachusetts (and) Scotts Valley, California
  • Silicon Vineyard - Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada (and) Petaluma / Santa Rosa / Napa Valley, CA
  • Silicon Wadi - Israel
  • Silicorn Valley - Fairfield, Iowa
  • Siliwood - Hollywood, California
  • Teknopolis - greater Johor Bahru city, Johor State, Malaysia
  • Telecom Beach - San Diego, California
  • Telecom Corridor - Richardson, Texas
  • Telecom Valley - Minas Gerais, Brazil (and) Catawba County, North Carolina (and) The Riviera, France
  • Webport - Portland, Maine
See also : city acronyms  C-T  
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