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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.

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", the provincial administrative district of the people's Republic of China, the capital of Taiyuan, is located in North China. Shanxi is bounded by 34 °34km north latitude and 114o 14km east longitude, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. The topography of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram oblique to the southwest, which is a typical mountain plateau covered by loess, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The internal ups and downs of the plateau, vertical and horizontal river valleys, landforms have mountains, hills, platforms, plains, mountain areas account for 80.1% of the total area. Shanxi Province straddles the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the river belongs to the self-produced outflow type. Shanxi Province is located in the inland of the middle latitudes and belongs to the temperate continent.
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