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Columbus (/kəˈlʌmbəs/) is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and the third-most populous state capital. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. It is the core city of the Columbus metropolitan area, which encompasses 10 counties in central Ohio. The metropolitan area had a population of 2,138,926 in 2020, making it the largest entirely in Ohio[a] and 32nd-largest in the U.S.

Columbus originated as numerous Native American settlements on the banks of the Scioto River. Franklinton, now a city neighborhood, was the first European settlement, laid out in 1797. The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and laid out to become the state capital. The city was named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. The city assumed the function of state capital in 1816 and county seat in 1824. Amid steady years of growth and industrialization, the city has experienced numerous floods and recessions. Beginning in the 1950s, Columbus began to experience significant growth; it became the largest city in Ohio in land and population by the early 1990s. The 1990s and 2000s saw redevelopment in numerous city neighborhoods, including Downtown.

Baijiantan District is the municipal district of Karamay City, Xinjiang, 30 kilometers northeast of the city. In 1956, when the oil workers explored here, they saw that there was a vast expanse of saline and alkali everywhere, hence the name. Baijiantan area is located in the northwest margin of Junggar Basin, bordering Tori County in the north, Buxel County in the south, Karamay District in the southwest and Wuerhe District in the northeast, with a total area of 1272 square kilometers. Most of the landforms are Gobi (desert), which is located in the typical continental climate zone of mid-temperate zone. In 2016, the local GDP of Baijiantan District was 2.12 billion yuan. Of this total, the added value of the primary industry was 60 million yuan, the secondary industry was 910 million yuan, and the tertiary industry was 1.15 billion yuan. By the end of 2017, Baijiantan District had jurisdiction over two streets and one town, with a total of 20 community neighborhood committees and 5 administrations.
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