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.
Liping County, under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, south of Qiandongnan Prefecture, east of Jingzhou Miao Dong Autonomous County and Tong Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region in the south, Rongjiang County and Congjiang County of Qiandongnan Prefecture in the west, Jinping County and Jianhe County of Qiandongnan Prefecture in the north. Liping County is the largest county with the largest area and the largest population in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, of which the Dong nationality accounts for about 71% of the total population of the county. It is the county with the largest population of the Dong nationality in China, and it is also the main birthplace of Dong culture, so it has the laudatory name of "the capital of Dong township". Liping is a famous historical and cultural city at the provincial level. the government stationed in Defeng was founded in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. The ancient city is well preserved, with the "oil pot of Shanhai granary".