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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.

Zhangzhou, under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, is one of the cities on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. China's "pastoral city, ecological city", ecological competitiveness ranks in the forefront of Fujian, the national Minnan cultural and ecological reserve. Zhangzhou is located in the "South Fujian Golden Triangle". The central urban areas are Xiangcheng District, Longwen District, Zhangzhou Taiwan Investment Zone and Zhangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It is an important hub area for the intersection of Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway, Longxia Railway, Eagle-Xiamen Railway and Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway, and a national regional circulation node city in China. There are many typhoons in summer and autumn in Zhangzhou. It is the famous "hometown of fish, rice, flowers and fruits". Zhangzhou Plain is the largest plain in Fujian. Known as "seaside Zou Lu", he was selected as the Forbes Top 100 Commercial City in China in 2014.
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