• 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.

Lingshi County, located in the middle of Shanxi Province and at the southern end of Jinzhong Basin, is known as "the main road of Qin and Jin dynasties and the thoroughfare of Sichuan and Shaanxi". It is 150 kilometers away from the provincial capital Taiyuan, facing Jiexiu to the north, Huozhou to the south, Qinyuan to the east, Jiaokou and Xiaoyi to the west, and it is known as "the Emperor of Yanji and the Classic of Qin and Shu". The county covers a total area of 1206 square kilometers, with a width of 53.5km from east to west and 39km from north to south. With a total population of 267000 (2013), it has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 6 townships, 3 communities, 291 administrative villages and 13 neighborhood committees. The territory of ups and downs, ravines vertical and horizontal, Dayun highway, South Tongpu railway along the Fenhe parallel. Lingshi is also an important energy and chemical industry base in Shanxi Province, and one of the most attractive cities with investment potential and characteristics in China. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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