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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.

Shandong Province, a coastal province in East China, referred to as Lu, is the capital of Jinan. It is located in the east coast of China, between latitude 34 °22.9 °mi 38 °24.01 °N and longitude 114 °47.5 °Mo 122 °42.3'E. it borders Hebei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces from north to south. The central part of Shandong Province is mountainous, the southwest and northwest are low-lying and flat, the eastern part is gently hilly, the eastern part is Shandong Peninsula, the western and northern parts belong to the North China Plain, and the central and southern part is mountainous and hilly, forming the landforms with mountains and hills as the skeleton, plain and basin crisscross ring, including mountains, hills, platforms, basins, plains, lakes and other types. It spans the Huaihe River, Yellow River, Haihe River, Xiaoqing River and Jiaodong five major river systems; it belongs to the warm temperate monsoon climate. As of
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