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.
Ningguo, under the jurisdiction of county-level cities in Anhui Province, is hosted by Xuancheng. Located in the southeast of Anhui Province, the northern foot of Tianmu Mountain, the upper reaches of Shuiyang River. The total area is 2487 square kilometers, with a registered population of 384000 (2018). It has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 8 towns and 5 townships. No. 1 Shifu Lane, Renmin Road, Xijin Street, where the Municipal people's Government is stationed. Ningguo has a history of more than 1800 years since the thirteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (208 years). In 1997, the State Council agreed to abolish Ningguo County and set up Ningguo City at the county level. Ningguo is located in the mountainous and hilly area of southern Anhui, which is high in the south and low in the north, with undulating mountains and rivers from east to west; the highest point is Longwang Mountain in the southeast, 1587 meters above sea level; the lowest point is Gangkou Town in the north, which is only 40 meters above sea level; it belongs to North Asian fever.