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.
Gaozhou, county-level cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, important small and medium-sized cities of Beibu Gulf Urban agglomeration in China, economically strong counties (cities) in mountainous areas of Guangdong Province, educational counties (cities) of Guangdong Province, and county medical centers of Guangdong Province, the comprehensive strength of economic and social development has long been in the forefront of Guangdong counties. Gaozhou is located in the southwest of Guangdong Province, southwest of Guangdong, near the South China Sea in the east, Jianjiang Plain in the south, Guangxi in the west, Yunkai Mountain in the north, six counties and cities in Guangdong and Guangxi in the west, Yangchun City and Dianbai District in the east, Maonan District in the south and Xinyi City in the north, bordering Huazhou City in the southwest and Beiliu City in Guangxi in the northwest. Gaozhou, formerly known as Maoming County and Gaozhou County, evolved from the administration of Maoming County by Gaozhou Prefecture (Road) in the Yuan Dynasty, while the place name of "Gaozhou" evolved from "Gaoliang". Before the Sui Dynasty, Gaoliang County was in the area of Enping and Yangjiang; since the Sui and Tang dynasties