• Albuquerque
  • Suide 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.

Suide County, located in the north of Shaanxi Province, southeast of Yulin City, is located in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. Suide County has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 12 towns and 661 administrative villages, with a total population of 359500 (2016). Suide has a long history and a collection of humanities, formerly known as "Shangjun Guyi". It is known as "famous state in the world", "famous state in Qin and Han Dynasty" and "dry wharf" in northern Shaanxi. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Suide County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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