• Albuquerque
  • Shidian County

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.

Shidian County, Xiazhong County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, is located in the western border of Yunnan Province, the east bank of Nujiang River, the south of Baoshan City, between 98 °54 miles east longitude and 25 °00 degrees north latitude, between Kuke River and Changning County in the east, Mengpolo as the boundary and Lincang City in the south, across the Nujiang River and Longling County in the west, and Longyang District in the north. The county seat is 60 kilometers away from Baoshan Municipal Government and 654 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital. By the end of 2015, Shidian County has a total population of 344418, with a total area of 2009 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 8 townships, with the county government stationed in Dianyang Town. Shidian County belongs to the low-latitude mountain monsoon climate dominated by the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 17.6 ℃. The topography of the territory belongs to the mountain canyon area on the tail wing of Nushan Mountain, which is generally high in the north and low in the south.
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