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.
Lingchuan County, which belongs to Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, is located in the southeast of Shanxi Province, Gaoping in the west, Zezhou County in the southwest, Huguan and Changzhi in the north, and Huixian City and Xiuwu County in Henan Province in the east and south, which is the gateway to the southeast of Shanxi Province. The county has a total area of 1751 square kilometers, most of which are between 1,200 mi 1600m above sea level, with the highest elevation of 1796.2 m and the lowest elevation of 628m. The stony mountain area accounts for 43.9% of the total area of the county. It has jurisdiction over 7 communities in 7 towns, 5 townships, 371 administrative villages and 7 communities, with a total population of 255000, including an agricultural population of 226000. Lingchuan has a long history and heavy cultural accumulation. The ancient domain is the Yao and Shun tribes, which is the birthplace of go in the world. Since the founding of the county by Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty (596 AD), there have been 7 top winners and 93 in history.