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.
Huangshi, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the southeast of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, facing the Yangtze River in the northeast, across the river from Huanggang City, Echeng District of Ezhou City in the north, Jiangxia District of Wuhan City and Liangzihu District of Ezhou City in the west, Xianning District and Tongshan County in Xianning City in the southwest, and Wuning County and Ruichang City in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province in the southeast. Huangshi is one of the first two provincial municipalities established in Hubei Province after the founding of the people's Republic of China, the deputy central city of Wuhan city circle, an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, an important raw material industrial base in central China, and a national pilot city for resource depletion transformation. it is also an open city along the river approved by the State Council. In June 2017, Huangshi was named the national health city. Huangshi City has a total land area of 4583 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over four municipal districts as of the end of March 2017.