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.
Dongguan, one of the prefecture-level cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, one of the central cities of the Pearl River Delta and one of the cities of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, is a central city on the east coast of the Pearl River Delta approved by the State Council. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 4 streets and 28 towns, with a land area of 2460.1 square kilometers, a sea area of 82.57 square kilometers, a resident population of 8.3922 million, and an urban population of 7.6386 million, with an urbanization rate of 91.02%. Dongguan is located in the central and southern part of Guangdong Province, the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, Guangzhou in the northwest, Shenzhen in the south and Huizhou in the northeast. Dongguan is the first of the "four little tigers of Guangdong" and is known as the "factory of the world". It is also one of the five prefecture-level cities without districts and one of the new first-tier cities in the country. Dongguan established a county during the period of the three Kingdoms.