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.
Zhuozhou, Hebei Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, managed by Baoding City, is located in the northwest of North China Plain, southwest of Beijing, the gate of the south of Beijing. It faces Gu'an in the east, Laishui in the west, Beijing in the north and Gaobeidian in the south. Zhuozhou belongs to Hebei Province. Zhuozhou has a total area of 742.5 square kilometers. As of March 2019, the total registered population of Zhuozhou is 680000. On September 24, 1986, Zhuoxian County was withdrawn and Zhuozhou City was built under the jurisdiction of Zhuoxian County, which still belongs to Baoding area. Zhuozhou famous specialty products are Zhuozhou Gongmi, gold tapestry, du Kang noodles and so on. Famous figures in Zhuozhou include Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Kuangyin, Ji Daoyuan and so on. In 2008, it was approved as a "provincial historical and cultural city" by the people's Government of Hebei Province. On February 28, 2015, Hebei held a mobilization meeting on the pilot system reform of counties (cities) directly administered by the province.