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Denver (/ˈdɛnvər/) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet or 1609.344 meters) above sea level.[a] The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.

Denver is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 2,963,821 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 19th most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-county Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had a population of 3,623,560 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 17th most populous U.S. primary statistical area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching across two states with a population of 5,055,344 at the 2020 United States Census. Its metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan area within a 560-mile (900 km) radius and the second most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, it was named the best place to live in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

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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