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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.

Dongyang City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, is hosted by Jinhua City and is located in the middle of Zhejiang Province; Huaiji Mountain, Dapanshan and Xianxialing extend into the country, forming a landform of three mountains with two basins and two rivers, with high terrain in the east and low in the west, belonging to the subtropical monsoon climate zone; it has 6 streets, 11 towns and 1 township, with a total area of 1746.81 square kilometers and a total population of 847800 in 2018. Dongyang is located in the middle of Zhejiang Province, with Yongjin Expressway and Zhuyong Expressway crossing in the middle of Zhejiang Province, which is the transportation hub of central Zhejiang. Since ancient times, Dongyang has had the tradition of "starting learning and emphasizing teaching, ploughing and studying hard". Zhu Xi, Lu Zuqian and Lu you once lectured and preached at the "Stone Cave Academy" in Dongyang. Dongyang ancient residential buildings are mainly wood carvings in Dongyang, which integrates decorative arts such as bamboo weaving, stone carving, brick carving and heap carving, forming a unique Confucian school.
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