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.
Luo Ding, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is hosted by Yunfu City. In ancient times, it was called Yuzhou, also known as Longxiang. Located in the west of Guangdong Province, south of the Xijiang River, it is the traffic hub of Xijiang Corridor. It has been regarded as a great defense and an important place in Fusui since ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, it was also known as the "pivot of the whole Guangdong Province". It was once an important military town in the southwest of Shouling in the town of Guangdong. Luoding is one of the gateways for the southwest provinces to enter Guangdong, and it is also the window for Guangdong to radiate to the great southwest of China. Luoding is an important node city in the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt. The central, northeastern and southern parts of Luoding City are basins and hills. Luoding Basin is the largest basin in Guangdong, with a unique basin climate, and the plain landforms of Luoding are mainly distributed here. Luoding is the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in Guangdong Province. In 2012, Luo Ding was included in the pilot project of financial reform in counties directly under the control of Guangdong Province. two hundred and one