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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.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, referred to as "Xin", the capital city of Urumqi, located in the northwest border of China, is one of China's five ethnic minority autonomous regions. With an area of 1.66 million square kilometers, it is the largest provincial administrative region in China, accounting for 1/6 of China's total land area. The resident population is 24.8676 million (at the end of 2018). Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of Eurasia, with a land border of more than 5600 kilometers, and is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, and Afghanistan. It is an important passage of the ancient Silk Road in history, and now it is a necessary place for the second "Eurasian Continental Bridge", and its strategic position is very important. There are 56 nationalities in Xinjiang, mainly living in Han, Uygur and Uygur.
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