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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").

Ludian County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, the south of Zhaotong City, the north bank of Niulan River. The east-west horizontal distance of the county is 50 kilometers, the north-south vertical distance is 60 kilometers, and the total area is 1519 square kilometers, of which the mountain area accounts for 87.9 percent of the total area and the dam area accounts for 12.1 percent. As of 2013, Ludian County has jurisdiction over 10 towns, 2 townships (including 2 ethnic townships), a total of 4 neighborhood committees and 80 administrative villages. The county government is in Wenping town. The vertical climate change in Ludian County is obvious, with no extreme heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The average annual temperature is 12.1 ℃, the annual frost-free period is 220 days, and the average annual precipitation is 900mm. There are silver, lead, copper, sulfur, coal, phosphorus and other mineral deposits, Lemachang silver mine in the territory. Ludian County is the main producing county of wax insects in China, and the main producing county of walnut and high quality flue-cured tobacco in Yunnan Province.
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