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.
Maoxian is a county under the jurisdiction of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. it is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province and on the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the southeast of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The geographical coordinates are longitude 102 °56 "104 °10" east and latitude 31 °25 "32 °16". It spans the alpine valleys of the upper reaches of the Minjiang River and the Fujiang River, 116.62 kilometers from east to west, 93.73 kilometers from north to south, and an area of 3903.28 square kilometers. As of 2012, Maoxian has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 18 townships, a total of 149 administrative villages and 3 neighborhood committees, with a total population of about 110000. It is the largest Qiang inhabited county in China. In addition to the Qiang nationality, 17 ethnic groups such as Han, Tibetan and Hui also live in the territory. On July 31, 2018, the Sichuan Provincial Government approved the withdrawal of Maoxian from the poverty-stricken county preface.