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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.

Zhecheng is a county under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, located in the east and southwest of Shangqiu City, the middle and lower reaches of Huiji River, connected with Suiyang District in the northeast, Ningling County and Sui County in the north, Luyi County in Zhoukou City in the south, and Taikang County in Zhoukou City in the west. As of May 2019, Zhecheng County has a total area of 1048 square kilometers, 2 offices, 10 towns and 10 townships, with a total population of 1.044 million. In 2018, the county's GDP reached 22.6 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. More than 6,000 years ago, Emperor Yandi Zhu Xiangshi was founded and buried in Zhecheng; in the Xia Dynasty, Zhecheng was called "Zhuye"; in the Shang Dynasty, it was called "Autumn Land"; in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was one of the founding capitals of the "Sanke"; most of it belonged to the State of Chu in the warring States period. The Qin Dynasty began to buy counties, with cities with Zhe gully circulation and cross-strait
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