• Albuquerque
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Albuquerque (/ˈælbəkɜːrki/ (listen) AL-bə-kur-kee; Spanish: [alβuˈkeɾke]),[a] abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in 1706 as La Villa de Alburquerque by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain.

Located in the Albuquerque Basin, the city is flanked by the Sandia Mountains to the east and the West Mesa to the west, with the Rio Grande and bosque flowing from north-to-south. According to the 2020 census, Albuquerque had 564,559 residents, making it the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which had 916,528 residents as of July 2020, and forms part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, which numbers 1,162,523 as of January 2020.

Albuquerque is a hub for technology and media companies, historic landmarks, and the fine arts. The city is known for hosting the University of New Mexico, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the Gathering of Nations, the New Mexico State Fair, as well as for its diverse restaurant scene, which features both New Mexican cuisine and cuisines from around the world.

Baota District, known as Yanzhou in ancient times, is located in the northern Shaanxi Province and the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. It is known as "Qin important area" and "plugged throat". The Xia Dynasty belonged to Yongzhou, it was successively under the jurisdiction of Di, Jin, Wei and Qin in the Spring and Autumn and warring States period, and it was established in the Han Dynasty, Yanzhou or Yan'an House in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Fushi after the Song Dynasty. After the Republic of China, it was renamed Yan'an County. In 1937, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China entered Yan'an and established Yan'an City, which is the seat of the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border region. In December 1996, Yan'an withdrew to set up the city, and Yan'an was renamed Baota District. It is the seat of the Yan'an Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and it is the central city of Yan'an. The total land area of the region is 3556 square kilometers, with a registered population of 481200 (2017) and a resident population of 491800 (2017). It has jurisdiction over 9 towns, 4 townships and 5 cities.
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