• Albuquerque
  • Liuba 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.

Liuba County is located in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, north of Hanzhong City. Located in the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, the upper reaches of the Han River, "face Ba Shu and back Qinchuan", is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, no heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The geological and geomorphological features are unique, with a long history, rich resources and convenient transportation, which has been known as the "throat of the Qin and Han dynasties". It is 46.4 km long from east to west and 67.2 km wide from north to south. The county seat is 367km away from Xi'an and 85 km away from Hanzhong, with 2.725 million mu of forestry land and 89000 mu of agricultural land, which is one of the forestry counties in Shaanxi Province. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Liuba County to withdraw from the poverty-stricken county sequence.
Travel Notes In Liuba County