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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.

Hancheng is known as "Longmen", "Xia Yang" and "Shaoliang" in ancient times. Weinan City in Shaanxi Province is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the hometown of Shi Sheng Tai Shi Company Ma Qian. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou sealed here, saying that South Korea, at the turn of the Spring and Autumn and warring States period, and King Zhou Ping, the son of Qin Zhong, was called Liang. During the warring States period, Qin established Xiayang County. Sui Kai Huang 18 years (598) home Hancheng County. It was changed to Hancheng City in January 1984 and was listed as an open city in Shaanxi Province in 1985. In 2006, it became the only city in Shaanxi Province that was awarded "China's Outstanding Tourism City" as a county-level city. In 2016, it was selected as the first batch of national global tourism demonstration zones. In 2017, it was selected as a national high-quality city demonstration city, the first batch of national food safety demonstration cities and national major municipal engineering leaders.
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