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.
Liancheng County, also known as Liancheng, is located in the southern section of the Wuyi Mountains in the western mountains of Fujian. It is located at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces. The county is bordered by Yong'an City and Xinluo District in the east, Shanghang in the south, Changting in the west and Qingliu in the north. At the end of 2018, it had jurisdiction over 17 townships with a registered population of 348443 and was familiar with the Liancheng dialect of Hakka in western Fujian. According to "Reading History Fang Yu Ji Yao", Liancheng County was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, which got its name from the county's governance of Donglianfeng Mountain. The Yuan Dynasty was changed to Liancheng County. Lian Castle was built in Song and Yuan dynasties (1098mur1100), belonging to Changting County, and Liancheng County was established in Shaoxing three years (1133). Yuan to Zheng six years (1346) renamed Liancheng. Subordinate to Tingzhou, Tingzhou Road, Tingzhou Capital, Tingzhang Road. Counties were established successively in Xinquan and Lianfeng from 1929 to 1934.