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.
Zezhou County, which belongs to Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, was originally a suburb of Jincheng City, but it was changed to its present name in 1996. Located in the southeastern tip of Shanxi Province, the southernmost part of Taihang Mountain, the intersection of Shanxi and Henan provinces, since ancient times is the key point of Sanjintong to the Central Plains, known as "Hedong Pinghan, southern Hebei Xiong Town". Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, surrounds the urban area of Jincheng City, adjacent to Gaoping City, Jincheng City in the north, Lingchuan County, Jincheng City in the east, Yangcheng and Qinshui County in Jincheng City in the west, and Jiyuan and Jiaozuo in Henan Province in the south. It is 62.75km wide from east to west and 58.85km from north to south, with a total area of 2023 square kilometers and an area of 725000 mu of cultivated land, accounting for about 1.2 per cent of the total area of Shanxi. It has jurisdiction over 14 towns, 3 townships, 633 administrative villages, 140000 households and 526000 people (2008), of which the agricultural population is 45.