San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 12th-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.
Image: SJ skyline at night horizontal
Image: USA San Jose De Anza Hotel 3
Image: USA San Jose Bank of Italy 5 (cropped)
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Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni, c. 1635
Saint Joseph and the Christ Child by Guido Reni, 1640
Dream of St Joseph, c. 1625–1630, by Gerard Seghers
Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850, by John Everett Millais
