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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.

Weixin County, which belongs to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, is located in the joint of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. It is commonly known as the "three provinces of chicken singing". During the long March, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army held a famous "Taxi meeting" here. The county covers an area of nearly 1400 square kilometers, with more than 420,000 people of Han, Yi and other ethnic groups (2010). Weixin is a typical mountain county, whose agriculture is mainly corn, rice and flue-cured tobacco. Weixin County has Guandoushan stone carving group, Taxi conference site and large-scale Tiantai Mountain karst cave, Fan people hanging coffin and Tianxing National Forest Park. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Weixin County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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