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.
Guyuan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, known as Dayuan, Gaoping, Xiaoguan and Yuanzhou in ancient times, is located in the south of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, is a deputy central city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, and is located on the northwest edge of China's Loess Plateau. It is a typical continental climate; it has jurisdiction over 1 district and 4 counties, with a total area of 10540 square kilometers; by the end of 2018, the total number of permanent households in Guyuan is 352000, the total resident population is 1.2424 million, and the total registered population is 1.5077 million. Guyuan is located in the center of the triangle composed of the three provincial capitals of Xi'an, Lanzhou and Yinchuan, one of the five prefecture-level cities of Ningxia and the only non-Yellow River city. Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Revolutionary Base Revitalization Planning Central City, South Ningxia Regional Central City, political, Economic, Cultural Center and Transportation Hub