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.
Yangjiang, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located on the southwest coast of Guangdong Province, with Jiangmen Enping and Taishan to the east, Maoming to the west, the South China Sea to the south and Yunfu to the north. It is the direct hinterland of the Pearl River Delta and the frontier of western Guangdong facing the Pearl River Delta; the topography is mainly low mountain and hilly landforms, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate area with obvious marine climate; it has jurisdiction over two districts, one city and one county. The total area is 7955.9 square kilometers and the total registered population is 2.9606 million. Yangjiang Shenhai Expressway, Western Guangdong Coastal Expressway, Shanzhan Expressway, Zhongyang Expressway, National Highway 325, Sanmao Railway, Yangyang Railway and Shenzhan Railway run through the whole territory. There are many talents in Yangjiang, including Ruan Tuizhi, a southern poet and calligrapher who is one of the eight sons of Lingnan in modern times, Guan Shanyue, a master of traditional Chinese painting, and the New fourth Army.