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.
Dege County, which belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, is located in the northwest of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, between longitude 98 °12 "98 °41" east and latitude 31 °24 "32 °43 'north, adjacent to Ganzi County in the east, Baiyu County in the south, Jiangda County in Tibet across the Jinsha River in the west, and Shiqu County in the north, located in the upper reaches of Jinsha and Yalong River. The total area of the county is 11025.24 square kilometers. The 317 line of Sichuan-Tibet Highway runs through the county seat and some districts and townships. Qiershan pass is 5050 kilometers above sea level, which is known as "the highest in Sichuan and Tibet and the first risk in Sichuan and Tibet". The county seat is 588 kilometers away from the state capital Kangding and 954 kilometers away from the provincial capital Chengdu. As of 2011, the registered population of the county was 83495. The government is stationed in Gengqing town. At the end of 2010, domestic students in Dege County