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.
Ningqiang County is located in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, with Qinling Mountains in the north and Pillow Mountain in the south. The county has jurisdiction over 16 towns, 2 subdistrict offices and 200 administrative villages with a total population of 340000. Ningqiang is located in the confluence of the Qinling Mountains and the Bashan mountain system, with high in the southeast, low in the northwest and Wuding Mountain uplift in the middle. Ningqiang has abundant rainfall and humid air, and most areas have a warm temperate mountain humid monsoon climate with strong precipitation, with an annual precipitation of up to 1812.2 mm. Ningqiang County is a mountainous county with the confluence of the north and the south and the belt of Shu. It is the main gateway and golden passage from the northwest to the southwest. Baocheng, Yang'an Railway across the county, 108 National Highway, Western Han Expressway passing through; is the birthplace of the Han River, known as "the first city of the Han River" reputation, in November 2015 Ningqiang County was China