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.
Suining, a prefecture-level city of Sichuan Province, also known as Doucheng and Suizhou, is located in the middle of Sichuan Basin. It is the regional central city of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, the modern industrial base of Sichuan Province, and the modern ecological garden city characterized by "heart-nourishing" culture. Chengdu is connected to the west, Chongqing, Guang'an and Nanchong to the east, Neijiang and Ziyang to the south, Deyang and Mianyang to the north, and an isometric triangle to Chengdu and Chongqing. Located in the main axis of the development of urbanization in Sichuan, it is one of the "six metropolitan areas" strategically deployed in Sichuan Province, and an important part of Chengdu economic circle and Chengdu plain urban agglomeration. Suining has a total area of 5300 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 1 county-level city, 2 municipal districts and 2 counties. In 2018, the registered population is 3.6535 million and the city's GDP is 122.139 billion yuan. Located in the low hills of the central Sichuan Basin.