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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.

Qin'an County, which belongs to Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, the north of Tianshui City, and the lower reaches of Hulu River, a tributary of Weihe River; the center is located at 34 °51 °N and 105 °40 °E, with a total area of 1601 square kilometers. As of 2015, Qinan County has jurisdiction over 12 towns and 5 townships. The total population is 618000 (2012). In 2015, the GDP of Qin'an County reached 5.26 billion yuan. Qinan County belongs to the temperate semi-humid climate in the south of Longzhong, with an annual average temperature of 10.4 ℃ and a normal annual precipitation of 507.3 mm. Qin'an County is one of the eighteen arid counties in Gansu Province, which belongs to the Liangfeng gully region in the west of Longzhong Loess Plateau with many mountains and few rivers. By 2015, Yangshao, Majiayao, Qijia Culture and other Neolithic cultural sites have been found in Qin'an County.
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