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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.

Qingtian County is located in the southeast of Zhejiang Province, in the middle and lower reaches of Oujiang River. It is bordered by Wenzhou, Yongjia, Nanlian and Wencheng to the east, Lishui and Jingning she Autonomous County to the west, and Jinyun to the north. The county covers a total area of 2493 square kilometers, which is known as "nine mountains, half water and half land". It is known as "the stone capital of China, Qingtian of the world". Qingtian has a long history and is known as "the hometown of stone carvings, the hometown of overseas Chinese and the hometown of celebrities". It is also the first county in house prices in China, the top ten financial counties in China, the first county in foreign exchange, and the first county in per capita deposits. Qingtian also has the world agricultural heritage-Qingtian rice-fish symbiosis system. Qingtian stone is the first of the four national stones, the stone of Nu Yi mends the sky, and the seal is the first of the three seals. In 2013, Qingtian deeply implemented the development strategy of "deepening radiation to Wenzhou, building Qingtian in the world, and building a happy hometown of overseas Chinese".
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