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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.

Gaogang District is under the jurisdiction of Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is located in the southern half of Taizhou City, bordering the Yangtze River, Hailing District of Taizhou City in the north, Jiangyan District and Taixing City in the east, Jiangdu District of Yangzhou City in the west, and Yangzhong City in the south. The central coordinates of the city are 32 °1906 "north latitude and 119 °52" 33 "east longitude. Gaogang District has a total area of 286.83 square kilometers and a total population of 262905 (by the end of 2012). Gaogang District has jurisdiction over 4 townships, 3 subdistrict offices and 1 provincial high-tech industrial park. Gaogang District is the southern gate of downtown Taizhou and the birthplace of the Navy of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. In the Gaogang area, there are the Yangtze River Port Taizhou Port, the South-to-North Water diversion Project and the Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge. In October 2019, he was selected as the national science and technology in 2019.
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