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.
Deyang, also known as Jingcheng, is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province. Located in the northeast of Chengdu Plain; located in the transition zone from Longmen Mountains to Sichuan Basin; the northwest has a mountain vertical climate and the southeast has a humid monsoon climate in the middle subtropics. The city has a total area of 5910 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of 2 districts, 1 county, escrow 3 county-level cities; the registered population is 3.877 million in 2018. Adjacent to Chengdu, the provincial capital, Deyang is located at the intersection and overlap of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, making every effort to create a new city in the north of Chengdu's international metropolis. Deyang has well-developed transportation, 50 kilometers away from Shuangliu International Airport and 24 kilometers away from Qingbai River, the largest railway container center in Asia. Deyang is a major technology and equipment manufacturing base in China because of the "third-line construction" national layout of modern large industry. 2017 1