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.
Dingzhou City, Hebei Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, by Baoding City escrow, Hebei Province directly administered by the county (city) system reform pilot county. Located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, the western edge of North China Plain and the west of central Hebei Province, it has been known as "Kyushu throat, Shenjing brief area" since ancient times. With a total area of 1283.7 square kilometers and a resident population of 1.2269 million (2018), it has jurisdiction over 4 streets, 16 towns and 5 townships. Dingzhou City, located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Economic Zone, is an important node city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Economic Zone, a national comprehensive pilot area of new urbanization, a modern medium-sized city cultivated in the 12th five-year Plan of Hebei Province, and one of the ten famous historical and cultural cities in Hebei Province. In 2018, the gross domestic product of Dingzhou City reached 33.284 billion yuan, an increase of 7.3% over the same period last year.