 Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, and Faroe Islands.Before the opening of the Mall of Scandinavia, Kista Galleria was the biggest shopping center in the Stockholm region.Because of its ICT industries, it became in the 1980s referred to as "Chipsta" and, after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".