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.
Xintai, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, is hosted by Taian City and is located in the middle of Shandong Province. It is a pilot county for building a modern big city in Shandong Province. It is located in the middle of Taiyi Mountains and belongs to the warm temperate continental monsoon climate zone. It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 17 towns and 1 township, with a total area of 1946 square kilometers and a registered household population of 1.2742 million in 2017. Xintai had human existence in the Paleolithic Age. The unearthed teeth of Homo sapiens in Wuzhutai proved that it was once one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. There are three state-owned ecological public welfare forest farms in Lianhua Mountain, Taiping Mountain and Tumen. Lianhuashan is a world geological park, a national 4A scenic spot and a national forest park. The road traffic in the territory is well developed, with two expressways of Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and Taixin Expressway and Cilai, East (East Capital) Ping (Pingyi) and Wali (Jinzhong).