• 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.

Leshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, known as Jiazhou in ancient times, has the reputation of "Begonia fragrant country". Located in the middle of Sichuan Province, southwest of Sichuan Basin, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, belonging to the subtropical climatic zone. Leshan is an important industrial city in Sichuan Province, a regional central city in the south of Chengdu Economic Zone, an important hub city, an important traffic node and port city in Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration. Chengdu-Kunming Railway and Chengdu-Guizhou high-speed railway run through the whole territory. Leshan is a famous national historical and cultural city, the first batch of national open cities, national greening model cities, Chinese excellent tourist cities, national garden cities and national sanitary cities. Leshan has three world-class heritage sites-the World Natural and Cultural Heritage Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha, the World Irrigation Engineering Heritage Dongfengyan, 15 scenic spots above the national 4A level, and 35 national A-level scenic spots. Cut off
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