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.
Qu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Dazhou City, and is connected with Guang'an, Nanchong and Bazhong landscapes. The geographical coordinates are between 106 °38 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 15 miles east, and 31 degrees 16 degrees north latitude. Quxian is located in the transitional zone between the parallel ridges and valleys in eastern Sichuan and the purple hilly region in central Sichuan, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 2013 square kilometers. As of 2018, qu County has jurisdiction over 60 townships, with a registered population of 1.3438 million and a resident population of 1.1161 million. Qu County had human activities as early as the Neolithic Age. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Shang people established the national capital city in Chengba Village, Tuxi Town. In the first year of King Zhou (314 BC), Dangqu County was set up, and qu County was named in the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376). It also built a county.