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.
Congjiang County belongs to Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, bordering Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region to the east, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region to the south, Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, Libo County and Rongjiang County in the west, Liping County in the north, Middle reaches of Judu Liujiang River, 450 kilometers from the provincial capital Guiyang, 252 kilometers from the state capital Kaili, 280 kilometers from Liuzhou, Guangxi Guilin is 286 kilometers and Beihai Port is 600 kilometers. The main ethnic groups are Miao, Dong, Zhuang, Yao, Shui and other ethnic minorities. In 2017, Congjiang County's GDP was 6.091 billion yuan. In Congjiang County, there is Xiaohuang Village, Gaozeng Township, which is named as "the hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art" by the Ministry of Culture.