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.
Guangyuan City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, borders Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province in the north; Nanchong City in the south; Mianyang City in the west; Bazhong City in the east; on the northern edge of Sichuan, the mountain is in the transition zone to the basin, belonging to the subtropical humid monsoon climate; the city has a total area of 16314 square kilometers, with 3 districts and 4 counties under its jurisdiction; and there are 3.0262 million registered residents in 2017. Guangyuan City has been an important passageway into Sichuan since ancient times. It is the old place of Guo, the fortress of entering Shu, and the important town of the three Kingdoms. Guangyuan has a profound cultural heritage, especially the bright red gene handed down from generation to generation. Guangyuan is the concentrated display of pre-Qin ancient plank road culture and Chinese Shu road culture, the core corridor of the history and culture of the three Kingdoms, and the birthplace of the only female emperor Wu Zetian in Chinese history. It is also the core area of the former Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area and the later stage of the Red fourth Front Army.