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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.

Sihong County, under the jurisdiction of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, Hongze Lake to the east and Anhui to the west, located in the cross-radiation area of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone and the Huaihe River eco-economic belt, with an administrative area of 2731 square kilometers and a population of 1.1 million. It is the hometown of famous wine, crab and eco-tourism in China. Sihong is the wine capital of China. Shuanggou Daqu, one of the top ten famous wines, is produced here. Sihong sits on 40% of the water surface of Hongze Lake, one of the four major freshwater lakes in China, and is embedded in the national Hongze Lake Wetland Park. Sihong gave birth to an ancient civilization. Fifty thousand years ago, the people of Xiacaowan lived here after the water and thrived. It is one of the centers of biological evolution in the Cenozoic world, and it is also one of the centers of human origin.
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