Ko te nuinga o te Whare Wananga o Stanford kei runga i te 8,180-acre (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2) whare wānanga, tetahi o nga mea nui rawa atu i te United States. Kei runga i te San Francisco Peninsula, i te taha raki-hauauru o te Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) tata ki te 37 maero (60 km) ki te tonga-rawhiti o San Francisco me te tata ki te 20 maero (30 km) ki te raki-hauauru o San Jose. I te 2008, 60% o tenei whenua i noho tonu. Ko te whare wānanga nui o Stanford kei roto i te waahi kua tohua i roto i te rohe o Santa Clara County, ahakoa ko etahi o nga whenua o te whare wānanga (penei i te Whare Taonga o Stanford me te Whare Rangahau o Stanford) kei roto i nga rohe o te taone nui o Palo Alto. Kei roto ano i te whare wānanga te whenua nui i roto i nga rohe o San Mateo County (tae atu ki te SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory me te Jasper Biological Reserve), me te taone nui o Portola Hills Park (Stanford Woods), me
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