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.
Jiuzhi County is a county under the jurisdiction of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province and one of the animal husbandry production bases in Qinghai Province. It is located in the southeast of the state, at the junction of Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu provinces, adjacent to Aba County in Sichuan Province in the southeast, Banma County in the south, Dari County in the west, the Yellow River and Gande County in the northwest, and Maqu County in Gansu Province in the northeast. Jiuzhi established the people's Government of Jiuzhi County in March 1955, which has jurisdiction over 5 townships and 1 town. The total area is 8757.25 square kilometers. As of 2012, the total population of Jiuzhi County is 26000, mainly Tibetan, Han, Hui, Mongolian, Tu and other ethnic groups, of which 24000 are Tibetans, accounting for 95.6% of the total population. There are more than 10 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Jiuzhi County. In 2013, the GDP of Jiuzhi County was 269 million yuan, an increase over the same period last year.