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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.

Tianmen, known as Jingling in ancient times, is a municipality of Hubei Province, an important member of Wuhan City Circle and the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the main node cities in the Han River Basin, located in the middle of Hubei Province and the north of Jianghan Plain, reaching Dahongshan in the north, Hanjiang River in the south and Wuhan in the east. In the fourth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1726), Tianmen Mountain was named "Tianmen". In 1994, the State Council approved Tianmen City to be directly under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province. In 2018, the city's resident population was 1.2723 million. Tianmen is an important birthplace of world tea culture, the hometown of Lu Yu, the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in the interior, and the hometown of steamed vegetables in China. It is a national sanitary city and a national garden city. It ranks among the top 100 county economies in the country and has been rated as one of the top 100 county economies for 12 consecutive years.
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