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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.

Panan County, which belongs to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province (the geographical center of Zhejiang, known as "the Heart of Zhejiang"), bordering Dongyang, Xinchang, Xianju, Tiantai and other cities and counties. Within 2 hours from Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, it belongs to the economic zone of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic zone of central Zhejiang urban agglomeration. With a total area of 1196 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships with a population of 209000. Panan County was established in 1939 in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1958, the whole territory was merged into Dongyang County. In 1983, Panan County was restored. Panan is the largest Confucius settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, with two "national key cultural relic protection units" of Yushan ancient tea farm and beech stream Kong family temple and the only national medicinal plant national nature reserve-Dapanshan Nature Reserve, National 4A
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