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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.

Xihua County is located in the east of Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City. Total area of 1194 square kilometers, arable land area of 1.1 million mu, jurisdiction over 18 townships, 3 agricultural and forestry farms, household registration population of 920000 (2013). Xihua Han County, known as Xihua, Changping, Jicheng, Gonggou and so on, has been renamed Xihua since the Tang Dynasty. The ruins of Nuwa City are the key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province. Xihua has been awarded the demonstration county of national drinking water safety project, the advanced county of national agricultural technology popularization, the forestry ecological county of the whole province, the double support model county of the whole province, and the advanced county of safe construction of the whole province, and has won the "Red Flag Canal Spirit Cup" of the whole province for five consecutive years. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. On May 9, 2019, after special evaluation and inspection at the provincial level, it reached the hat standard for poverty alleviation.
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