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.
Jiangmen, also known as "Wuyi", Guangdong Province has jurisdiction over prefecture-level cities, is an important node city of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, one of the central cities in the western part of the Pearl River Delta; located in the western Pearl River Delta, bordering the South China Sea, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao; the geomorphological features are low in the north and high in the west, belonging to the subtropical monsoon climate; the total area is 9505 square kilometers, with jurisdiction over 3 municipal districts and 4 county-level cities; and the permanent population is 4.5617 million in 2018. With a long history and profound cultural heritage, Jiangmen is the hometown of Chen Baisha, the founder of psychology in the Ming Dynasty, Liang Qichao, the pioneer of modern reform, and Feng Ru, the father of China Aviation, and owns the Kaiping towers and villages of the world cultural heritage. a bird paradise that intoxicated Mr. Ba Jin. Jiangmen is an important transportation hub connecting Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area with western Guangdong, bordering Zhongshan and Zhuhai in the east, Yangjiang in the west and Guangzhou in the north.