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Charlotte (/ˈʃɑːrlət/ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the seventh most populous city in the South, and the second most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose 2020 population of 2,660,329 ranked 22nd in the U.S. Metrolina is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2020 census-estimated population of 2,846,550.

Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was ranked as the country's fastest-growing metro area, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S. Census data from 2005 to 2015, Charlotte tops the U.S. in millennial population growth. It is the third-fastest-growing major city in the United States. Residents are referred to as "Charlotteans".

Charlotte is home to the corporate headquarters of Bank of America, Truist Financial, and the east coast headquarters of Wells Fargo, which along with other financial institutions has made it the second-largest banking center in the United States. As of 2020, Charlotte was considered as a Gamma + level global city by the GaWC.

Guazhou County, which belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, is located at the western end of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, Yumen City, the oil city in the east, Dunhuang City in the west, the Mongolian Autonomous County in Subei in the north and south, and Hami in the northwest. Since ancient times, it has been the transportation hub of east to west and the merchant town of the ancient Silk Road. Guazhou County is 185km long from east to west and 220km wide from north to south, covering an area of 24100 square kilometers. Guazhou County has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 10 townships and 73 administrative villages. at the end of 2011, Guazhou County had a resident population of 149500, including 21 ethnic groups such as Han, Hui, Mongolian and Tibetan, and a minority population of 25000 (2011). Guazhou County has 4 national cultural relics protection units and 16 provincial cultural relics protection units. In 2011, the GDP of Guazhou County reached (G
Travel Notes In Guazhou County