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Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/) is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about 115 square miles (300 km2) and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, making it the fifth-most populous city in California, the most populous inland city in California, and the 34th-most populous city in the nation. The Metro population of Fresno is 1,008,654 as of 2022.

Named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885. It has since become an economic hub of Fresno County and the San Joaquin Valley, with much of the surrounding areas in the Metropolitan Fresno region predominantly tied to large-scale agricultural production. Fresno is near the geographic center of California, approximately 220 miles (350 km) north of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento, and 185 miles (300 km) southeast of San Francisco. Yosemite National Park is about 60 miles (100 km) to the north, Kings Canyon National Park 60 miles (100 km) to the east, and Sequoia National Park 75 miles (120 km) to the southeast.

Fresno is also the third-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States; 50.5% of its population was Hispanic in 2020. Since 2010, statewide droughts in California have further strained both Fresno's and the entire Central Valley's water security.

Liupanshui City is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province. Liupanshui City is located in Wumeng Mountain area of western Guizhou, with an annual average temperature of 15 ℃, an average temperature of 19.7 ℃ in summer and an average temperature of 3 ℃ in winter. With a cool, comfortable, moist, fresh climate and moderate ultraviolet radiation, it has been awarded the title of "cool capital of China" by the Chinese Meteorological Association and is the only city in the country named after its climatic characteristics. During the Spring and Autumn period, Liupanshui was a dependency of Yelang; during the warring States period, the city was a dependency of Yelang, which entered the farming era and reflected the characteristics of slave production relations due to the use of metal tools; after Qin unified China, it was a dependency of Hanyang County, Ba County. Liupanshui is located in the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the watershed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers, and both sides of the Nanpanjiang and Beipanjiang basins, which is rich in mineral resources. Traffic extends in all directions and is important in the southwest.
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