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.
Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province. it is located in the central and southern part of Guizhou Province, connected with Qiandongnan Prefecture in the east, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region in the south, Anshun City and Qianxinan Prefecture in the west, and Guiyang City in the north. It is located in the slope zone of the transition from Guizhou Plateau to Guangxi hills, with high terrain in the north and low in the south, and is located in the East Asian monsoon area. The state has a total area of 26197 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, nine counties and one autonomous county, with a resident population of 3.2809 million in 2017. Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture was once an important passage of the Silk Road to the sea in the south, and it was also the old road from central Guizhou to Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan and Yunnan. Aviation, railways, highways and river transportation crisscross in southern Guizhou. Qiu Hejia, governor of Liaodong and general soldier of Shanhaiguan, has emerged in southern Guizhou.