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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.

Xunyang County is located in the southeast of Shaanxi Province, in the eastern part of Qinba Mountains, between longitude 103 °58'to 109 °48 'east and latitude 32 °29' to 33 °13 'north. It is bordered by Baihe County and Yunxi County in Hubei Province to the east, Pingli County to the south, Zhushan County and Zhuxi County in Hubei Province to the south, Hanbin District to the west, and Zhenan County and Yunxi County in Hubei Province to the north. The county is about 82 kilometers from north to south, 79 kilometers from east to west and 390 kilometers from east to west. The county seat is located at the confluence of the Han River and Xunhe River. the new urban area extends upward for several kilometers along the west bank of the Xunhe River. The northern section is the old city of the county seat, and the place where the Xunhe River enters the Han River is in the shape of "S", so it is also called "Taiji City". The Xiang-Yu Railway has set up a station in the Liuwan community in the northwest of the county, which runs 1518 kilometers from Xiangyang, Zhengzhou and Shijiazhuang to the west of Beijing and west to Chengdu via Ankang and Dazhou.
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