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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.

Qilin District, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is the seat of Qujing Municipal Government. It is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, in the middle of the eastern Yunnan Plateau, in the upper reaches of Nanpanjiang River, between 103 °29 degrees east longitude and 104 °14 degrees east longitude and 26 °06 degrees north latitude. It is 137km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 1552.84 square kilometers. In 2017, Qilin District has a registered population of 749900, with a GDP of 63.3 billion yuan, and has jurisdiction over 13 streets and 3 towns. The terrain is high from east to west and low from north to south, with mountains, river valleys and hills interlaced with each other. The urban area is 1875 meters above sea level. Guiyang-Kunming Railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 326 are distributed radially in the territory. Qilin District has been appraised as the national sustainable development experimental area, the national ecological demonstration area and the national science popularization demonstration area.
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