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.
Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County (Daozhen County for short) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Zunyi City, named after Yin Daozhen, a scholar in the Han Dynasty. Daozhen County is located in the northernmost part of Guizhou Province and is the slope zone of the transition from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Sichuan Basin. It is adjacent to Nanchuan District, Wulong District and Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing in the northwest and northeast. The southwest and southeast are bordered by Zheng'an County and Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County respectively. 180 km to the south of Zunyi, 338 km to Guiyang and 160 km to Chongqing, it is the "joint" between the central Guizhou economic zone and the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and the bridgehead of opening up and cooperation between Guizhou and Chongqing. By the end of 2017, Daozhen County had jurisdiction over 1 street, 11 towns, 2 townships and 1 nationality township, with a registered population of 350900 and a resident population of 247300. 2019