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.
Lingshan County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou City, Guangxi, located in the south of Guangxi, northeast of Qinzhou City, bordering on Beibu Gulf, adjacent to Nanning and Beihai. It is the sub-center of Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and the deputy central city of Qinzhou. The county seat is more than 100 kilometers away from Nanning City, Qinzhou City, Beihai City, Fangchenggang City, Yulin City and Guigang City, forming an economic circle of one and a half hours with the six cities and 500 kilometers away from Guangzhou. It is the famous hometown of litchi, dairy buffalo, snake farming and famous tea in China. In addition, Lingshan County is also a famous hometown of fruit, aquatic products and fish and rice. Lingshan County is located on the bank of Qinzhou Bay in the south of Guangxi, located in the upper reaches of Qinjiang River, the northeast of Qinzhou, the coastal core industrial city of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, Hengxian County, Nanning City to the north, Hepu County, Beihai City to the south, and adjacent to the east.