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.
Lingshi County, located in the middle of Shanxi Province and at the southern end of Jinzhong Basin, is known as "the main road of Qin and Jin dynasties and the thoroughfare of Sichuan and Shaanxi". It is 150 kilometers away from the provincial capital Taiyuan, facing Jiexiu to the north, Huozhou to the south, Qinyuan to the east, Jiaokou and Xiaoyi to the west, and it is known as "the Emperor of Yanji and the Classic of Qin and Shu". The county covers a total area of 1206 square kilometers, with a width of 53.5km from east to west and 39km from north to south. With a total population of 267000 (2013), it has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 6 townships, 3 communities, 291 administrative villages and 13 neighborhood committees. The territory of ups and downs, ravines vertical and horizontal, Dayun highway, South Tongpu railway along the Fenhe parallel. Lingshi is also an important energy and chemical industry base in Shanxi Province, and one of the most attractive cities with investment potential and characteristics in China. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.