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.
Jingmen, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and a regional central city in central Hubei, known as the "Jingchu Gateway", is located in central Hubei Province, the middle and lower reaches of the Han River, Xiangyang City and Suizhou City in the north, Yichang City in the west, Xiaogan City in the east, Jingzhou City, Qianjiang City and Tianmen City in the south, respectively, between 111 °51 degrees east longitude and 113 °29km east longitude and 30 °32 miles north latitude 31 °36'. Jingmen belonged to the territory of Jingzhou in the Xia and Shang dynasties, the Western Zhou Dynasty belonged to the state of power and the warring States in the Spring and Autumn period, Chu in the Spring and Autumn period, Dangyang County in the Han Dynasty, Jingmen County in the Tang Dynasty, Jing Men Army in the Song Dynasty, Jingmen Prefecture in the Yuan Dynasty, Jingmen County in the Ming Dynasty, Zhili Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, Jiangzhou County in the Republic of China, and Jingmen County after the founding of New China. In 1979, Jingmen County and Jingmen City were established respectively. In 1983, Jingmen County and Jingmen City