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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.

Zhuozhou, Hebei Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, managed by Baoding City, is located in the northwest of North China Plain, southwest of Beijing, the gate of the south of Beijing. It faces Gu'an in the east, Laishui in the west, Beijing in the north and Gaobeidian in the south. Zhuozhou belongs to Hebei Province. Zhuozhou has a total area of 742.5 square kilometers. As of March 2019, the total registered population of Zhuozhou is 680000. On September 24, 1986, Zhuoxian County was withdrawn and Zhuozhou City was built under the jurisdiction of Zhuoxian County, which still belongs to Baoding area. Zhuozhou famous specialty products are Zhuozhou Gongmi, gold tapestry, du Kang noodles and so on. Famous figures in Zhuozhou include Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Kuangyin, Ji Daoyuan and so on. In 2008, it was approved as a "provincial historical and cultural city" by the people's Government of Hebei Province. On February 28, 2015, Hebei held a mobilization meeting on the pilot system reform of counties (cities) directly administered by the province.
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Enter the ancient county Zhuozhou in the middle of winter, and visit the Sanyi Palace and Film and Television City (Wang Zhiming)
Walk into Zhuozhou, an ancient county In the middle of winter, the sky is gloomy, and the northern villages are bleak. I came to Zhuozhou, an ancien
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