• Bakersfield
  • Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê

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.

Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, referred to as Ganzi Prefecture, is located in the west of Sichuan Province and southeast of the Kangzang-Tibet Plateau. With a total area of 153000 square kilometers, it is a prefecture-level administrative district dominated by Tibetans. The whole prefecture has jurisdiction over Kangding, a county-level city, 17 counties, including Luding and Danba, 325 townships (towns) and 2679 administrative villages. The state capital is located in Kangding City, which is the political, economic and cultural center of the whole state. it is famous at home and abroad for its "Kangding Love Song" and is known as the hometown of love songs. Ganzi Prefecture is rich in hydraulic and geothermal resources; there are pandas, red pandas, golden monkeys, white-lipped deer and other wild animals; there are Gastrodia elata, Cordyceps sinensis, Fritillaria, Angelica, Astragalus and other valuable traditional Chinese medicine. There are gold, silver, copper, iron, molybdenum, lithium, marble, granite and other mineral resources. Kangding, Yajiang and Daofu counties (cities) in Ganzi Prefecture
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