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Louisville (/ˈluːivɪl/ (listen) LOO-ee-vil, US: /ˈluːɪvɪl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, locally /ˈlʊvɪl/ (listen) LUUV-əl) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States.[a] Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville's main commercial airport, hosts UPS's worldwide hub.

Dazhou, a prefecture-level city of Sichuan Province, is located in the east of Sichuan Province. it has a history of more than 1900 years since the establishment of the county in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With an area of 16591 square kilometers, Dazhou has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties and 1 county-level city, plus a high-tech zone with a total population of 6.9 million (as of December 2018, the population of the central district of Dazhou was 1.025 million). Dazhou is a populous city, an agricultural city, a resource-rich city, an industrial town, a transportation hub and an old revolutionary base in Sichuan Province. Luojiaba site and Chengba site in Dazhou are the birthplace of the ancient Ba people and Ba Culture Center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the center of Baqu culture in Sichuan, one of the three major gas fields in the country and the starting point of the national "Sichuan gas transmission from east". It is a comprehensive national natural gas.
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