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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.

Shimian County, which belongs to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, is located in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the southwest of Ya'an City, and its geographical coordinates are 101 °55 in longitude and 102 °34 in longitude and 29 °32 in latitude. Shimian County has a total area of 2678 square kilometers. It belongs to the mountain climate with mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate as the base belt, with concentrated summer rain, more night rain, less storms and no autumn continuous rain. Shimian County has jurisdiction over 1 street, 1 town, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships, and the county government is stationed in the streets of Mian City. As of 2018, the total registered population of the county is 128800. In the thirteenth year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1833), the soil was changed and the land of the fourteen fortresses was placed in Shunhe Township. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was "ready to establish a constitution". Shunhe became an autonomous township of its own, all on the north bank.
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