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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 958,692. Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Fort Worth has historically been a center of the Texas Longhorn cattle trade. It still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design. USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city. Nearby Dallas has held a population majority as long as records have been kept, yet Fort Worth has become one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century, nearly doubling its population since 2000.

Fort Worth is the location of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several museums designed by contemporary architects. The Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Louis Kahn, with an addition designed by Renzo Piano. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was designed by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by Philip Johnson, houses American art. The Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M. Schwarz, has a collection of Western art in the U.S., emphasizing Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History was designed by Ricardo Legorreta of Mexico.

Fort Worth is the location of several university communities: Texas Christian University, Texas Wesleyan, University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Texas A&M University School of Law. Several multinational corporations, including Bell Textron, American Airlines, BNSF Railway, and Chip 1 Exchange are headquartered in Fort Worth.

Ludian County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, the south of Zhaotong City, the north bank of Niulan River. The east-west horizontal distance of the county is 50 kilometers, the north-south vertical distance is 60 kilometers, and the total area is 1519 square kilometers, of which the mountain area accounts for 87.9 percent of the total area and the dam area accounts for 12.1 percent. As of 2013, Ludian County has jurisdiction over 10 towns, 2 townships (including 2 ethnic townships), a total of 4 neighborhood committees and 80 administrative villages. The county government is in Wenping town. The vertical climate change in Ludian County is obvious, with no extreme heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The average annual temperature is 12.1 ℃, the annual frost-free period is 220 days, and the average annual precipitation is 900mm. There are silver, lead, copper, sulfur, coal, phosphorus and other mineral deposits, Lemachang silver mine in the territory. Ludian County is the main producing county of wax insects in China, and the main producing county of walnut and high quality flue-cured tobacco in Yunnan Province.
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