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.
Hong'an, formerly known as Huang'an, is located at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains in the northeast of Hubei Province, facing Wuhan to the south, Henan to the north, Macheng to the east, Huangpi and Dawu to the west. The county seat is 80 kilometers away from the provincial capital Wuhan and is about an hour's drive. It is an important part of Wuhan city circle. Hong'an County has a total land area of 1796 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 12 townships and 396administrative villages. In 2017, Hong'an County has a total population of 700000, including 559000 in rural areas and 134600 in cities and towns. Hong'an is a typical agricultural county in mountainous areas, a key county in the new round of national poverty alleviation and development work, and a pilot county for the construction of old base areas across the country. Hong'an, with beautiful mountains and rivers and outstanding people, once nurtured the founder of Neo-Confucianism, famous philosophers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the "Tiantai Sangeng" (Geng Ying and Geng Ding) in the Ming Dynasty.