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Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr/ BAWL-tim-or, locally: /bɔːldəˈmɔːr/ bawl-da-MOR or /ˈbɔːlmər/ BAWL-mər) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland[a] in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles (64 km) north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526.

Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonists from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. The first printing press and newspapers were introduced to Baltimore by Nicholas Hasselbach and William Goddard respectively, in the mid-18th century.

The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner", which was eventually designated as the American national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War.

Nanhua County is a county under the jurisdiction of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Formerly known as Zhennan, it was changed to Nanhua County in 1954, meaning "beautiful place in the southwest". Nanhua County is located in the west of Chuxiong Prefecture, bordered by Mouding County in the east, Chuxiong City in the southeast, Jingdong Yi Autonomous County in the south, Midu County in the west, Xiangyun County and Yao'an County in the north. The county seat is 33 kilometers away from the state capital Chuxiong City, 192 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, and 175 kilometers away from Dali City. Nanhua County is not only one of the key counties of the national poverty alleviation and development work, but also one of the 47 revolutionary base counties in Yunnan during the War of Liberation. On February 2, 2019, it was rated as a county-level national advanced unit of traditional Chinese medicine by the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Nanhua County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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