The state nickname is „The Golden State“and its motto is „Eureka“. Would you guess which U.S. state is it?
Sacramento is the state capital. Now you know it is California, the most populous and the third largest U.S. state by area.
Meanwhile, attracted to the mild Mediterranean climate, cheap land, and the states wide variety of geography, filmmakers established the studio system in Hollywood in the 1920s. Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in California instead of leaving the state, and develop a high-tech region in the area now known as Silicon Valley.
As a result of these efforts, California is currently regarded as a world center of the entertainment and music industries, of technology, engineering, and the aerospace industry, and as the U.S. center of agricultural production. Just before the "Dot Com Bust" California had the 5th largest economy in the world among nations.