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.
Shawan County, the eastern gate of Tacheng area, is located in the middle of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang and the southern edge of Junggar Basin, under the jurisdiction of Tacheng area, with Shihezi City in the east, Hejing County in the south, Kuitun City and Dushanzi District in the west, and Karamay City in the north. Shawan County covers an area of 13100 square kilometers, with a total population of 216435 (2012). It is composed of 30 ethnic groups, including Han, Kazak, Hui and Uygur, and has jurisdiction over 9 towns, 3 townships, 5 agricultural and animal husbandry and forestry farms, 2 management offices and 250 village teams. Shawan County has successively won the titles of more than 20 state-level advanced counties, including scientific and technological progress, culture and sports, civil affairs, and more than 30 autonomous district-level advanced counties, such as the construction of grass-roots organizations, investment attraction, employment and re-employment, and has won eight consecutive autonomous region civilized counties and two Chinese civilized counties. two hundred and one