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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.

Wenchuan County, which belongs to Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, is located on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, northwest Sichuan Province, Juchuan Northwest Plateau and the southeast of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is 84 kilometers from east to west and 105 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 4084 square kilometers. The county seat is 1236 meters above sea level. It is 146 kilometers south from the provincial capital Chengdu and 202 kilometers north from the state capital Markang. It has jurisdiction over 9 towns and 3 townships. At the end of 2016, the registered population of Wenchuan County was 97615. Wenchuan is known as "the hometown of Dayu, the home of pandas and the hometown of Qiang embroidery". It is the birthplace of Dayu, the first ancestor of China, one of the four Qiang inhabited counties in China, and the ecological experience area of Qiang culture. Around the tourism brand of "World Wenchuan, Dayu hometown, Panda Home", with Dayu culture, Tibetan and Qiang culture, three Kingdoms culture,
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