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.
Heshan, a county-level city in charge of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the south of Guangdong Province, facing Nanhai District and Shunde District in the east, Gaoming District in the north, Pengjiang District and Xinhui District in the south, and Kaiping City and Xinxing County in the west. 325 National Highway, Jianghe Expressway, Fokai Expressway and Jiangzhao Highway run through the city. One of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Heshan was founded as a county in the tenth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732). It was named because there are mountains in the city that look like cranes. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was jointly known as Gaohe County with Gaoming County, and the organizational system of Heshan County was restored in 1982. In November 1993, the county was withdrawn and established as a city, under the jurisdiction of 10 towns, 22 community committees, 137 village committees and 10 immigrant villages in the three Gorges Reservoir area. Heshan City has won "80 well-off counties (cities)" and "one of the top 100 counties with national comprehensive strength".