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.
Lianzhou, a county-level city hosted by Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, is located in the northwest of Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, the upper reaches of Xiaobei River, Yangshan County in the southeast, Liannan County in the southwest, Lanshan County and Jianghua County in Hunan Province in the northwest, Linwu County in Hunan Province in the north and Yizhang County in Hunan Province in the northeast, with a total area of 2663.33 square kilometers. Lianzhou City is located at the southern foot of Mengzhuling in Nanling, with mountains on the west, north and east, and slightly lower in the middle. It belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, which is affected by the monsoon all the year round. The river in the territory belongs to the Lianjiang River system, a tributary of the Beijiang River (a tributary of the Pearl River). As of 2014, Lianzhou has jurisdiction over 10 towns and 2 ethnic townships. In 2016, Lianzhou had a resident population of 382200, with 29 ethnic groups, with the Han nationality as the main ethnic group and a minority.