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Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. As of 2020, Jacksonville's population is 949,611, making it the 12th most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in the Southeast, and the most populous city in the South outside of the state of Texas. With a population of 1,733,937, the Jacksonville metropolitan area ranks as Florida's fourth-largest metropolitan region.

Jacksonville straddles the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeastern Florida, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of the Georgia state line (25 mi or 40 km to the urban core/downtown) and 350 miles (560 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, a settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.

Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. People from Jacksonville are sometimes called "Jacksonvillians" or "Jaxsons" (also spelled "Jaxons").

Ganquan County belongs to the hilly and gully zone of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi Province, which is located in the middle of Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, with a semi-humid inland monsoon climate. The total area is 2284.7 square kilometers, the total area of cultivated land in the county is 609000 mu, and the forest and grass coverage rate is 78.4%, of which the forest coverage rate is 50.5%. Ganquan gets its name because of the spring water in the foothills of Shenlin, 5 kilometers southwest of the city, which is known as "the hometown of beautiful water". There is a history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin home Diaoyin County, Northern Wei early home Linzhen County, Tang Wude first year home Fulu County, Tianbao first year changed to Ganquan County. Places of interest include the site of Qin Zhidao, the "Meishui Spring" given by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the White Deer Temple built in the Tang Dynasty, the Millennium Ginkgo Tree, the ancient tombs of the Song Dynasty, and so on. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list.
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