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.
Zhecheng is a county under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, located in the east and southwest of Shangqiu City, the middle and lower reaches of Huiji River, connected with Suiyang District in the northeast, Ningling County and Sui County in the north, Luyi County in Zhoukou City in the south, and Taikang County in Zhoukou City in the west. As of May 2019, Zhecheng County has a total area of 1048 square kilometers, 2 offices, 10 towns and 10 townships, with a total population of 1.044 million. In 2018, the county's GDP reached 22.6 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. More than 6,000 years ago, Emperor Yandi Zhu Xiangshi was founded and buried in Zhecheng; in the Xia Dynasty, Zhecheng was called "Zhuye"; in the Shang Dynasty, it was called "Autumn Land"; in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was one of the founding capitals of the "Sanke"; most of it belonged to the State of Chu in the warring States period. The Qin Dynasty began to buy counties, with cities with Zhe gully circulation and cross-strait