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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.

Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County, which is under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is the largest ethnic autonomous county in Guizhou Province. It is located in the northwest of Guizhou Province, adjoining Yunnan Province in the north, west and south. With an area of 6295 square kilometers, the county government is stationed in Caohai Town. It has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 19 towns, 15 townships and 1 nationality township. In 2016, the resident population of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County was 1.2837 million, an increase of 6900 over the end of 2015. The central border of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County is open and smooth, surrounded by low, staggered peaks and ravines, and rivers flow, which is the source of the four rivers. It is a subtropical monsoon humid climate with annual sunshine hours of 1812 hours, frost-free period of 180days, annual rainfall of 926mm, small annual temperature difference, large daily temperature difference and warm winter.
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