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.
Subei Mongolian Autonomous County, which is under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan City, is located in the northwest of Gansu Province, on the north and south sides of the western end of the Hexi Corridor. The county is divided into two disconnected areas, Nanshan and Beishan, with a total area of 66748 square kilometers. it is bordered by three counties and cities of one country and three provinces (regions). It has jurisdiction over 2 towns and 2 townships, with a total population of 11741 (2012), of which 4446 are Mongolian, accounting for 37.9%. Subei County had nomadic activities in the pre-Qin period; in the Western Han Dynasty, it was incorporated into the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, belonging to Dunhuang County; after the continuous war, the ownership was changed repeatedly, the local regime and nomadic sphere of influence were crisscross, and the control of the central regime was weak. It belongs to Gansu Province since the Qing Dynasty, and Subei Bureau was set up in the Republic of China in twenty-five years (1937). Liberation in July 1950, 19