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.
Pinghe County (ancient Pinghe County, Zhangzhou Capital), under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is located in the southwest of Zhangzhou, connected with Fujian and Guangdong provinces and eight counties, known as the "thoroughfare of eight counties". There are Fuzhao Expressway, Yunping Expressway (under construction), 207 Provincial Highway, 309 Provincial Highway and other trunk lines. In ancient times, Pinghe was the city of Yangzhou, Zhou was the land of seven Min, and Ming Zhengde bought a county in the thirteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1518), meaning "Keping and human harmony". The key hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral place of Taiwan compatriots in Fujian Province is not only an economically underdeveloped county, but also a coastal economic open county; Pinghe County is also one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province, but also one of the important ancestral places of Taiwan compatriots; the former central Soviet area county and the province's key old base county. Pinghe County has an area of 2328.6 square kilometers, ranking first in Zhangzhou. Under the jurisdiction of 16 townships (farms), 240