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.
Huaibei, referred to as "Huai", called "Xiangcheng" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The central city in the northeast of Anhui Province, an important energy city in the country. Located in the north of Anhui Province, it is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, Xiao County in the north, Bozhou in the south, Suzhou in the east and Shangqiu in Henan Province in the west. It is 150km long from north to south and 50km from east to west, with a total area of 2802 square kilometers, making it the smallest prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The total population in 2016 is 2.165 million. It has jurisdiction over three municipal districts in Xiangshan District, Liishan District, Duji District and one county in Suixi County. The municipal government is stationed in Xiangshan District. Huaibei has a long history and a gathering of humanities. More than four thousand years ago, the eleven ancestors of Shang and Tang Dynasty built the city at the southern foot of Xiangshan, which was the beginning of civilization. Since then, successive dynasties have set up counties and counties here. There are Uncle Yu, Huan Tan, Ji Kang, Liu Ling and so on.