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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.

Nima County is a county under the jurisdiction of Naqu City, Tibet Autonomous region, located in the north of the Tibet Autonomous region and northwest of Naqu City, bordering Xigaze City in the south, Shuanghu County and Shenza County in the east, and Gaize County in the west. The average elevation is more than 5000 meters. It belongs to the semi-arid monsoon climate in the subcold zone of the plateau and the arid climate in the cold zone of the plateau. The air is thin, windy and snowy, with an average annual temperature of-4 ℃ and annual precipitation of 150mm. With a total area of 72499.41 square kilometers and a population of 31161 (at the end of 2014), it has jurisdiction over 1 town, 13 townships and 77 administrative villages. The county government is stationed in Nima town. Nima means "sun" in Tibetan. Nima County, whose economy is mainly animal husbandry, is a pure animal husbandry county. In 2014, the county's GDP was 482.86 million yuan.
Travel Notes In Nyima County
Across Qiangtang, Bangor and Nima ——2020 Autumn Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai Self-driving Travel Notes (9)
The Qiangtang Plateau is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest inland area of ​​the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (in the Qiangtang Basi