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.
Yongcheng, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, escrow county-level city, Yongcheng is located in the easternmost part of Henan Province, located in the junction of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, known as "the gateway to the east of Henan". Yongcheng has a total area of 2020 square kilometers and a cultivated land area of 1.8 million mu. As of 2018, Yongcheng has jurisdiction over 25 towns and 4 townships, and the municipal government is located in the north of people's Square in the middle of Dongfang Avenue. By the end of 2018, Yongcheng had a total population of 1.576 million and a resident population of 1.2388 million. Yongcheng gets its name because the city has been repeatedly beaten by water, which means "the city of eternity". During the Anti-Japanese War, it was the seat of the provincial party committee of the Henan-Anhui-Soviet Border region of the Communist Party of China during the Anti-Japanese War. In 1996, it was withdrawn from the county and set up a county-level city. In 2014, it became a river.