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.
Nansha District, Guangzhou City District, Guangdong Province, is the deputy city center of Guangzhou, which is located at the southernmost end of Guangzhou, the west bank of the Humen waterway of the Pearl River, and the confluence of Xijiang, Beijiang and Dongjiang rivers. The region has a total area of 803 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 3 streets and 6 towns. The District people's Government is stationed in Huangge Town. By the end of 2017, the resident population of Nansha District was 725000, of which 415400 were registered residents. Nansha District is located in the Pearl River Estuary and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Geographic Geometry Center. It is the only passage to the sea in Guangzhou and an important pivotal node connecting the urban agglomeration on both sides of the Pearl River Estuary and Hong Kong and Macao. There are Nansha Port, the only deep-water wharf in the western Pearl River Delta, Zhongchuan Longxue Shipbuilding Base, one of the three major shipbuilding bases in China, and Guangzhou, the first bonded port area in Guangdong Province that has passed the national formal acceptance.