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.
Xianning, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the southeast of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, bordering Hunan and Jiangxi. Known as "the south gate of Hubei", it is an important member of the Wuhan urban circle and the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River; mild climate, abundant precipitation, sufficient sunshine, four distinct seasons, long frost-free period; the terrain is high in the south and low in the north; under its jurisdiction: Xianan District, Tongcheng County, Tongshan County, Jiayu County, Chongyang County, Chibi City. The total population in 2017 is 2.5351 million. Xianning has won the China Human settlement Environment Model Award, the most suitable human settlement city in China, the charming city in China, the hot spring city in China, the ten most growing and innovative cities in China, and the second batch of renewable energy building application demonstration cities in China. Hubei Province, the first batch of low-carbon economy pilot cities, the first batch of national tourism standardization cities, national forest cities.