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.
Zhaoan County (ancient Zhangzhou capital Zhaoan County) Zhangzhou County, Fujian Province, located at the southern end of Fujian Province, at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong. It is bordered by East China Sea and South China Sea to the south, Raoping County in Guangdong Province to the west, Pinghe County to the north, Yunxiao County and Dongshan County to the east, and Raoping County and Nanao County to the west. The land area is 1293.6 square kilometers, of which the planned area of the county and urban areas is 100 square kilometers, the built area is 17.5 square kilometers, the coastline is 88 kilometers long, and the sea area is 273 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 16 townships (districts), 7 state-owned agricultural and forestry farms, 1 provincial industrial park and 1 Jindu industrial concentration area (marine biological industrial park) under construction, with a population of 613000, of which agricultural population accounts for more than 80%. Zhaoan County is the "hometown of calligraphy and painting" and "Chinese folk".