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'''Santa Clara County''', officially the '''County of Santa Clara''', is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of [[California]], with a population of 1,936,259 as of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="QF"/> Santa Clara County and neighboring [[San Benito County, California|San Benito County]] form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara [[metropolitan statistical area]], which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland [[combined statistical area]]. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and in [[Northern California]].
The [[county seat]] and largest city with a population of 971,233 is [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], the [[List of United States cities by population|
Home to [[Silicon Valley]], Santa Clara County is an economic center for [[high technology]], and had the third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the world as of 2015 behind [[Zürich]] and [[Oslo]], according to the [[Brookings Institution]].<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/23/san-jose-has-worlds-third-highest-gdp-per-capita.html Silicon Valley Business Journal – San Jose Area has World's Third-Highest GDP Per Capita, Brookings Says]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/04/america-richest-counties-lifestyle-real-estate-wealthy-suburbs.html|title=America's 25 Richest Counties|first=Francesca|last=Levy|website=[[Forbes]]|date=March 4, 2010}}</ref> Located on the southern coast of [[San Francisco Bay]], the urbanized [[Santa Clara Valley]] within Santa Clara County contains most of the county's population. More recently, extensive [[droughts in California]], further complicated by drainage of the Anderson reservoir within the county for seismic repairs, have strained the county's [[water security]].<ref>[https://gilroydispatch.com/anderson-reservoir-will-close-to-public-through-2030/] "Anderson Reservoir will close to public through 2030". Accessed March 30, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/12/dire-situation-silicon-valley-cracks-down-on-water-use-as-california-drought-worsens] "‘Dire situation’: Silicon Valley cracks down on water use as California drought worsens". Accessed June 23, 2022.</ref>
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