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.
Xiahe County is a county under the jurisdiction of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, named after the Daxia River. Xiahe County is located in the northwest of Gannan Prefecture, adjacent to Cooperative City and Luqu County in the east and south, Linxia State and Xunhua County and Tongren County in Qinghai to the north, and Zeku County in Qinghai to the west. By 2016, the resident population of Xiahe County was 89500, of which the urban population was 19596. As of 2018, Xiahe County has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 5 townships and 3 township-level units, and the county government is stationed in Labrang Town. In 2017, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Xiahe County reached 1.558 billion yuan, down 3.6 percent from 2016. Of this total, the completed added value of the primary industry was 514 million yuan, up 6.0% over the same period last year; the completed added value of the secondary industry was 122 million yuan, down 10% from the same period last year; and the tertiary industry completed an increase.