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.
Qingyuan, also known as "Fengcheng", is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, located in the middle and upper reaches of the Beijiang River. As early as the Neolithic Age, ancestors thrived in this land and created a splendid prehistoric civilization. Qingyuan is located in the north-central part of Guangdong Province, bordering Shaoguan in the northeast, Zhaoqing in the southwest and Guangzhou and Foshan in the southeast. With a total area of 19200 square kilometers, it is the largest prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, with jurisdiction over Qingcheng, Qingxin District 2 and Fogang, Yangshan, Liannan and Lianshan counties and two county-level cities in Yingde and Lianzhou, with a total registered population of about 4.1 million in 2018. Qingyuan is connected with the Pearl River Delta region with Guangzhou as the center. In history, the southern part of Qingyuan once belonged to the jurisdiction of Guangzhou for a long time. Qingyuan culture, like Guangfu cultural circle, has a deep relationship in history, geography and ethnic groups. Yes