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.
Qianzhong, known as Baoning in ancient times, is a county-level city hosted by Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. it is located in the northeast of Sichuan Basin, in the middle reaches of Jialing River, at the southern foot of Qinba Mountain, surrounded by mountains and water in three directions. It is bordered by Bazhong City and Yilong County in the east, Nanbu County in the south, Jiange County in the west and Cangxi County in the north. For more than 2000 years, it has been an important military town for Bashu. Langzhong City covers an area of 1878 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 19 towns and 4 townships, with a total population of 859192 (2016). It is a demonstration city of ecological construction in China, an excellent tourist city in China, a thousand-year-old county in the world, and the hometown of Chinese Spring Festival culture. Yuanzhong is known as "Langyuan Wonderland" and "Ba-Shu wants to rush". Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, left a famous saying here that "the world is rare in the south of Langzhou". The territory is home to China's four most well-preserved