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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.

Minxian, which belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, is named because of Minshan, which is located in the south of Dingxi City, Gansu Province. The establishment of Minxian County can be traced back to the eighth year of Qin Wangzheng (239 BC), which was called Lintao, which was the western starting point of the Qin Great Wall. Minzhou was established in the 10th year of Emperor Wendi's Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 544), changed to Minxian County in 1913, and was placed under the jurisdiction of Dingxi after 1985. Minxian County has jurisdiction over 9 townships and 9 towns, with a total area of 3578 square kilometers and a total population of 490300 (2014). The government is resident in Minyang Town. Minxian County is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the Gannan grassland to the Loess Plateau, Longnan mountain transition zone, the territory elevation of 2040-3754 meters, known as "Longyuan dry Wharf". The climate is plateau continental climate, low temperature and dry, frequent natural disasters.
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