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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.

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city of Zhejiang Province. Located in the north-central part of Zhejiang Province and the south bank of Hangzhou Bay, it is a cultural and eco-tourism city with the characteristics of water villages in the south of the Yangtze River, an important city in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, a core city around Hangzhou Bay, and a deputy central city in Hangzhou metropolitan area. Ningbo City to the east, Taizhou City and Jinhua City to the south, Hangzhou City to the west, facing Jiaxing City across the Qiantang River to the north, located in longitude 119 °53 °03cm quot east; to 121 °13 °38km quot; latitude 29 °13o 35km quot north; to 30 °170030km quot; between, it belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, warm and humid, with four distinct seasons. The city covers an area of 8274.79 square kilometers, with a span of 130.68 kilometers from east to west and 119.83 kilometers from north to south.
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