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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.

Haifeng County, which belongs to Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province. Haifeng is derived from "Nanhai Wufeng" and is known as "the land of fish and rice". It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong and one of the 13 red bases in the country. Xianhe six years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 331) established a county. In the ninth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1731), Shifan, Fang and Jikang were all set up in Lufeng County. Shanwei City was established in March 1988, and Haifeng designated seven coastal towns as urban areas. The county has jurisdiction over 16 townships, one economic development zone and three agricultural and forestry farms, with a total population of more than 800,000. Haifeng is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are 470000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In March 2019, it was on the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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