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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.

Qujing is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the east of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces and regions, known as "the key of Yunnan and Guizhou" and "Yunnan throat". It is 120km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 28900 square kilometers, accounting for 13.63% of the area of Yunnan Province. As of April 2018, Qujing City has jurisdiction over 1 city, 3 districts and 5 counties. At the end of 2016, the total registered population of the city was 6.5297 million. Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains of the transitional zone from the eastern Yunnan plateau to the western Guizhou plateau in the middle of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau. The west is embedded with the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau, the eastern part is gradually inclined to the Guizhou Plateau, and the central part is a watershed zone between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. There are eight unique languages of Yi, Buyi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.
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