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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.

Fuping County, which belongs to Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the transitional zone between Guanzhong Plain and Northern Shaanxi Plateau in the middle of Shaanxi Province. It is bordered by Pucheng County and Weinan City in the east, Lintong District and Yanliang District in the south, Yaozhou District in Tongchuan City in the west, Sanyuan County in Xianyang City and Yintai District in Tongchuan City in the north. It is between 108 °57 east longitude 109 °26 km east longitude and 34 °42 km north latitude, 35 °06 'north latitude, 47 km from north to south and 34 km from east to west, with a total area of 1242 square kilometers. Fuping County gets its name from the meaning of "affluence and peace". It is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. as early as the ancient times when human civilization was still ignorant, the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, used the bronze of Shouyang to cast it on the top of Nanjingshan, and when Dayu ruled the world, he cast nine tripods, which symbolized the supreme power.
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