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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.

Xuancheng, known as Wanling and Xuanzhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, located in the southeast of Anhui Province, bordered by Hangzhou and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province to the east, Huangshan in the south, Chizhou and Wuhu in the west and northwest, Maanshan in the province and Nanjing, Changzhou and Wuxi in Jiangsu Province to the north and northeast. It is located on the western waist line of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle. It is a member city of Nanjing metropolitan area and the central city of G60 Kechuang Corridor. The city of Wanjiang takes the first wing of the demonstration area to undertake industrial transfer, which is the forward position for the central region to undertake the industrial and capital transfer in the eastern region, the central city of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and an important channel for the southeast coast to communicate with the interior. Xuancheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been said to be "the combination of the south and the north" since ancient times. Since the establishment of the county in the Western Han Dynasty, it has a history of more than 2000 years. Xuancheng has been since the Western Han Dynasty.
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