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.
Ruzhou is the capital of Ru porcelain and the hometown of Ququ Opera; Henan Province directly manages the county-level city. A regional central city in southwestern Henan. It is located in the central and western part of Henan Province, relying on the towering Songshan Mountain in the north, Funiu in the south, Luoyang, the ancient capital in the west, and the Huang-Huai Plain in the east. Beiru River runs through the whole territory from west to east. The total area is 1573 square kilometers and the total population is 1.2 million. It has jurisdiction over 2 townships, 13 towns, 5 subdistrict offices and 453 administrative villages. Ruzhou is located at the junction of Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Pingdingshan and Xuchang. Jiaoliu Railway and National Highway 207 run from north to south and connect with Longhai Line and Beijing-Guangzhou Line. Sanyang Railway (planned to be built), National Highway 344 (planned to be built) Luojie Highway, Nanluo (Nanjing-Luoyang) Expressway, Erguang Expressway, Lin (Ruzhou-Ruzhou-Tongbai) Expressway (Linzhou-Ruzhou-Tongbai) runs from east to west, and with Beijing.