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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.

Qu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Dazhou City, and is connected with Guang'an, Nanchong and Bazhong landscapes. The geographical coordinates are between 106 °38 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 15 miles east, and 31 degrees 16 degrees north latitude. Quxian is located in the transitional zone between the parallel ridges and valleys in eastern Sichuan and the purple hilly region in central Sichuan, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 2013 square kilometers. As of 2018, qu County has jurisdiction over 60 townships, with a registered population of 1.3438 million and a resident population of 1.1161 million. Qu County had human activities as early as the Neolithic Age. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Shang people established the national capital city in Chengba Village, Tuxi Town. In the first year of King Zhou (314 BC), Dangqu County was set up, and qu County was named in the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376). It also built a county.
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