

San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, affluence, and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. 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. 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 km 2). With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the San Francisco 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. 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. San Jose, officially San José ( / ˌ s æ n h oʊ ˈ z eɪ, - ˈ s eɪ/ Spanish: Spanish for ' Saint Joseph'), is a major city in the U.S.
