• Albuquerque
  • Jinta County

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.

Jinta County, which belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, is located on the northern edge of the middle part of Hexi Corridor, between longitude 97 °58'E and latitude 39 °47 °40 °59', with a total area of 18800 square kilometers. Jinta County is a typical temperate arid continental climate with cold winter, hot summer, large temperature difference, sufficient sunshine and large evaporation. As of 2017, it has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 5 townships and 1 urban community management committee, with 479 village groups and 4 urban communities in 89 administrative villages. As of 2017, the total population of Jinta County is 145600. Huishui County was set up in the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (121BC), which has a history of more than 2100 years. It was formerly known as Wang Zizhuang, named because Ju Quli, the eldest son of Beiliang, once established a herding village here.
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