San José
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San José – or its anglicized form San Jose – is the Spanish for Saint Joseph. According to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's GEOnet Names Server, it is the most common place name in the world.
Two major cities in the world share the name San José:
- San José, Costa Rica, the capital city of Costa Rica
- San Jose, California, United States, the largest city with this name
As do many other smaller cities, towns and administrative subdivisions:
- In Argentina:
- San José, Entre Ríos
- San José de Feliciano, Entre Ríos
- San José de Jáchal, San Juan
- San José de Metán, Salta
- In Belize:
- In Colombia:
- San José de Cúcuta, the unused official name of Cúcuta
- Valley Municipality of San José, Guanentá
- In Costa Rica:
- In Guatemala:
- In the Marianas:
- In Mexico:
- San José, Baja California
- San José, Durango
- San José, Querétaro
- San José, San Luis Potosí
- San José, Sonora
- San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur
- San José Iturbide, Guanajuato
- San José Xicoténcatl, Tlaxcala
- In Panama:
- In Paraguay:
- In Philippines:
- In the United States:
- In Uruguay:
The name is also present in:
- 6216 San Jose, an asteroid
- "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", a Burt Bacharach song
- Isla de San José, an island in Panama
- Mission San Jose, a mission in California, USA
- Palacio San José, a historical building and museum in Entre Ríos, Argentina
- San Jose Mercury News, a daily newspaper
- San José Volcano, on the Chilean–Argentine border
- Weddell Island, ("Isla San José" in Spanish), Falklands
- San José, the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship full of gold
- Several colleges and universities:
- Colegio San José, Puerto Rico
- San José State University, California, USA
- University of San Jose-Recoletos, Philippines
- Two animal species:
- The San Jose Island Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys insularis
- The San Jose Brush Rabbit, Sylvilagus mansuetus