• Albuquerque
  • The Ancient City of Langzhong

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.

Qianzhong, known as Baoning in ancient times, is a county-level city hosted by Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. it is located in the northeast of Sichuan Basin, in the middle reaches of Jialing River, at the southern foot of Qinba Mountain, surrounded by mountains and water in three directions. It is bordered by Bazhong City and Yilong County in the east, Nanbu County in the south, Jiange County in the west and Cangxi County in the north. For more than 2000 years, it has been an important military town for Bashu. Langzhong City covers an area of 1878 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 19 towns and 4 townships, with a total population of 859192 (2016). It is a demonstration city of ecological construction in China, an excellent tourist city in China, a thousand-year-old county in the world, and the hometown of Chinese Spring Festival culture. Yuanzhong is known as "Langyuan Wonderland" and "Ba-Shu wants to rush". Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, left a famous saying here that "the world is rare in the south of Langzhou". The territory is home to China's four most well-preserved
Travel Guides In The Ancient City of Langzhong
Travel Sights In The Ancient City of Langzhong
Travel Notes In The Ancient City of Langzhong