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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.

Minqin County is a county under the jurisdiction of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, which is located in the northeast of Hexi Corridor and the lower reaches of Shiyang River Basin. In 17 years (1928), the name was changed to "plain and mellow, the people are industrious". Minqin County is located in Wuwei in the south, Jinchang in the west, and the left and right banners of Inner Mongolia in the northeast and northwest. It is 206km long from east to west and 156km wide from north to south, with a total area of 15800 square kilometers. By the end of 2017, Minqin County had jurisdiction over 18 towns and 248 villages, with a registered population of 273700 and a resident population of 241300. In 2016, Minqin County achieved a regional GDP of 7.775 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7%. Investment in fixed assets of the whole society reached 20.876 billion yuan, an increase of 13.01%, of which more than 15.617 billion yuan was increased.
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