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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.

Xihua County is located in the east of Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City. Total area of 1194 square kilometers, arable land area of 1.1 million mu, jurisdiction over 18 townships, 3 agricultural and forestry farms, household registration population of 920000 (2013). Xihua Han County, known as Xihua, Changping, Jicheng, Gonggou and so on, has been renamed Xihua since the Tang Dynasty. The ruins of Nuwa City are the key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province. Xihua has been awarded the demonstration county of national drinking water safety project, the advanced county of national agricultural technology popularization, the forestry ecological county of the whole province, the double support model county of the whole province, and the advanced county of safe construction of the whole province, and has won the "Red Flag Canal Spirit Cup" of the whole province for five consecutive years. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. On May 9, 2019, after special evaluation and inspection at the provincial level, it reached the hat standard for poverty alleviation.
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