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Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the 2020 census was 403,455, making it the 48th-most populous city in the United States of America and the 9th-most populous city in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2020 census population of 909,235, making it the 62nd-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The more built-up portion of the metro area that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield, Oildale, and Rosedale, has a population of 523,994.

Bakersfield is a significant hub for both agriculture and energy production. Kern County is the most productive oil-producing county in California and the fourth-most productive agricultural county (by value) in the United States. Industries in and around Bakersfield include natural gas and other energy extraction, mining, petroleum refining, distribution, food processing, and corporate regional offices. The city is the birthplace of the country music genre known as the Bakersfield sound.

Leshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, known as Jiazhou in ancient times, has the reputation of "Begonia fragrant country". Located in the middle of Sichuan Province, southwest of Sichuan Basin, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, belonging to the subtropical climatic zone. Leshan is an important industrial city in Sichuan Province, a regional central city in the south of Chengdu Economic Zone, an important hub city, an important traffic node and port city in Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration. Chengdu-Kunming Railway and Chengdu-Guizhou high-speed railway run through the whole territory. Leshan is a famous national historical and cultural city, the first batch of national open cities, national greening model cities, Chinese excellent tourist cities, national garden cities and national sanitary cities. Leshan has three world-class heritage sites-the World Natural and Cultural Heritage Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha, the World Irrigation Engineering Heritage Dongfengyan, 15 scenic spots above the national 4A level, and 35 national A-level scenic spots. Cut off
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