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.
Tongxu, known as Xianping in ancient times, has a long history and culture, and now belongs to Kaifeng, the ancient capital of the seven dynasties. Tongxu County is located in the middle and east of Henan Province, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, belonging to the eastern plain of Henan Province. The topography is high in the west and low in the east, high in the north and low in the south, tilting from northwest to southeast. It faces the Yellow River to the north, Songshan Shaolin to the west, Shangqiu, the important town in the east of Henan Province to the east, Zhoukou, a famous historical city to the south, 80 kilometers to the northwest from the provincial capital Zhengzhou, and 40 kilometers to the north to Kaifeng, the ancient capital. Located in the core area of the construction of the national strategic Central Plains Economic Zone, it is the route of Hengxiang railway in the planning. Tongxu County has jurisdiction over six towns and six townships, with a width of 30.5km from east to west and 34.8km from north to south, with a total area of 766.22 square kilometers. It is a part of the Huang-Huai Plain formed by the impact to the south of the Yellow River. The soil area of the county is 963742 mu.