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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.

Minxian, which belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, is named because of Minshan, which is located in the south of Dingxi City, Gansu Province. The establishment of Minxian County can be traced back to the eighth year of Qin Wangzheng (239 BC), which was called Lintao, which was the western starting point of the Qin Great Wall. Minzhou was established in the 10th year of Emperor Wendi's Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 544), changed to Minxian County in 1913, and was placed under the jurisdiction of Dingxi after 1985. Minxian County has jurisdiction over 9 townships and 9 towns, with a total area of 3578 square kilometers and a total population of 490300 (2014). The government is resident in Minyang Town. Minxian County is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the Gannan grassland to the Loess Plateau, Longnan mountain transition zone, the territory elevation of 2040-3754 meters, known as "Longyuan dry Wharf". The climate is plateau continental climate, low temperature and dry, frequent natural disasters.
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