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.
Zhongning County belongs to Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous region. It is located in the middle of Ningxia and the southern end of Ningxia Plain, between 105 degrees 26 minutes east longitude-106 degrees 7 minutes and 37 degrees 9 minutes-37 degrees 50 minutes north latitude. Located on both sides of the Yellow River, it is the transitional zone between the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Loess Plateau, belonging to the continental monsoon climate zone of the north temperate zone. Litong District and Qingtongxia City in the east, Zhongwei City in the west, Tongxin County in the south, and Alashan left Banner in Inner Mongolia in the north. The county is about 50 kilometers wide from east to west and 60 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 4226.5 square kilometers and a total population of 336100 (2013). The government is stationed in Ning'an Town. Zhongning County is located in the confluence of two tourist routes from Yinchuan to Liupanshan and from Yinchuan to Shapotou. It is a "dry wharf" running through the northwest and the collection and distribution of the flow of people, logistics and information.