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.
Dazi District, which belongs to Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous region, is located in the central and southern part of Lhasa, the middle reaches of the Lhasa River, and the east-west Chala Mountains and Guogalari Mountains in the north and south, respectively. Dazi District, 20 kilometers away from Lhasa, is known as the "East Gate" of Lhasa. The average elevation of the whole region is 4100 meters, the lowest elevation of the river valley is 3730 meters, the annual average temperature is 7.5 ℃, the average annual sunshine is 3065 hours, and the average rainfall is 450mm. The total area of the county is 1373 square kilometers, with an area of 68500 mu of cultivated land. As of December 2017, the region has jurisdiction over five townships and one town, with a total population of 30,000. There are 14 temples and Rizu Lakang in Dazi District, among which Gandan Temple, which was built at the beginning of the 15th century and has a history of more than 600 years, is the first of the six major temples of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism (Huangjiao).