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.
Linqing City, under the jurisdiction of county-level cities in Shandong Province, is hosted by Liaocheng City; located in the northwest of Shandong Province, at the confluence of Zhangwei River and the ancient canal, opposite Hebei Province, the terrain is flat, with few ups and downs, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, which is a typical continental monsoon climate; the total area is 960 square kilometers, with 12 towns and 4 streets; the total population in 2016 is 821200. The county system was established in Linqing at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, thanks to the developed water transport of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and economic and social prosperity for more than 500 years, it was an important circulation hub city and a well-known commercial city in the country at that time. Beijing-Kowloon high-speed railway will set up stations in Linqing, 2 highways (Xinglin Expressway and German-Shang Expressway) and 7 national and provincial highways (Provincial Highway 315, Linguan Road, Linxin Road, Liaolin Road and Linlin Road).