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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.

Gonghe County is one of the five counties in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province. it is a county with large population, vast territory and large proportion of animal husbandry economy in Qinghai Tibetan area. it plays an important role in the economic and social development layout of Qinghai Tibetan area. Located in the northeast of Qinghai Province, it is the Dongmen household of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "throat of Qinghai-Tibet". It is bounded by Qinghai Lake in the north, the "Mother River" in the south, the Yellow River in the east, Riyue Mountain in the east and the agricultural area in the east, and adjoins Qinghai's southern Tibetan area in the west. Gonghe County has jurisdiction over 11 townships, 99 administrative villages and 14 community neighborhood committees, with a total area of 17300 square kilometers. as of 2012, the total population was more than 134000, including 22 ethnic minorities, including Tibetan, Han, Hui, Sala and Mongolians. among them, ethnic minorities account for 70% of the total population of the county, and there are available grasslands.
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