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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.

Changqiao District, which belongs to Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the northeast of Anhui Province, bordering the three provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan. It was renamed from the former county-level Suzhou City in 1999. It is the only municipal district of Suzhou City, with a total area of 2868 square kilometers. Yuanqiao has a long history, it was the fief of the ancient "Sui Kingdom" in the Spring and Autumn period, and it was already a "gathering place of boats and cars and a thoroughfare in Kyushu" in the Qin and Han dynasties. After the opening of the "Tongji Canal" in the Sui Dynasty, it became a military town of "strangling and controlling the Huaihe River". Confucius practiced Zhou Li here; Min Ziqian, a high apprentice of Confucius and a sage of the Chinese nation, was born here; Bai Juyi grew up here until he became famous in Changan; Wang Ji, Han Yu, Su Shi, Yuan Mei and others left splendid poems; modern and modern cultural celebrities such as Mei Chunyi, Li Bairen, Yang Zaibao, Li Bingshu, and so on. This is the old uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Daze Township.
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