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.
Huize County, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, the east bank of Jinsha River and the northwest of Qujing City, between longitude 103 °55 'east and latitude 25 °48 °27 °04' north. It is adjacent to Xuanwei City and Weining County, Guizhou Province to the east, Zhanyi District to the south, Xundian County in Kunming City to the south, Dongchuan District in Kunming City to the west, Qiaojia County in Zhaotong City to the west, and Ludian County to the north. Huize County has a maximum horizontal distance of 84 kilometers from east to west and a maximum vertical distance from north to south of 138km, with a land area of 5886 square kilometers. Zhongping Town, the county seat, is 2120 meters above sea level, 245km away from Qujing city and 210km away from Kunming, the provincial capital. In 2006, the eight major guild halls in Huize were rated as national key cultural relic protection units; in 2009, Huize was recommended as China 1 by the National Human Geography.