San Jose,[A] officially San José (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, -ˈseɪ/; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'),[B] is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018.
Chaoyang, Liaoning Province under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level cities, also known as "Dragon City". Located in western Liaoning; the terrain is high in the north and northwest, southwest and low to the east, living in the continental monsoon climate zone of the north temperate zone; it has jurisdiction over two districts, three counties and two cities, with a total area of 19736 square kilometers; the total population in 2017 is 3.365 million. Chaoyang is the hub of political, economic and cultural exchanges between Northeast China and the Central Plains. Today, Chaoyang City is connected with the industrial urban agglomeration in central Liaoning in the east, the Bohai Sea in the south, the Beijing, Tianjin and Tang economic circles in the west, and the hinterland of Inner Mongolia in the north. Chaoyang has been the link area between Northeast China and the Central Plains since ancient times, so it has formed a multi-ethnic historical city in Northeast China and a strategic location of past dynasties. In 2017, Chaoyang realized the total regional production.