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.
Zengcheng District is a municipal district of Guangzhou, located in the east-central part of Guangdong Province and the east of Guangzhou, facing Dongguan in the south, Huizhou in the east and Conghua in the north. As of the end of 2017, it covers an area of 1616.47 square kilometers and has a resident population of 1.41 million. It has a state-level economic and technological development zone and "overseas Chinese Mengyuan", the fifth national industrial gathering area for overseas Chinese businessmen. Zengcheng County was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty Jian'an six years (2018), belonging to Nanhai County, because Nanhai County originally under the jurisdiction of six counties, a new county, an additional city, so it is called "Zengcheng". In 1993, counties were removed to set up cities, and in February 2014, cities were withdrawn to set up districts. It has jurisdiction over 4 subdistrict offices, 7 towns, 282 administrative villages and 55 communities with a population of 890800. The Zengcheng Economic and technological Development Zone within its jurisdiction is one of the three national development zones in Guangzhou.