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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.

Lianshan Zhuang Yao Autonomous County, which belongs to Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, is located in the Mengzhu Mountains, one of the Wuling Mountains in Nanling, and in the joint of Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi provinces (regions). Babu District, Hezhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region in the west, and Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in Hunan Province in the north, with numerous peaks, vertical and horizontal streams, and steep terrain. 87% of the total area of the county is mountainous. In ancient times, it is known as "nine mountains, half water and half land." after years of afforestation, the forest coverage rate reached 86.2% in 2014, ranking first in Guangdong. It is rich in native products such as Shatian pomelo, big meat ginger, rosin, Huaishan, winter mushrooms, tea oil, honey, fragrant japonica, bamboo shoots and so on, among which big meat ginger is known as "the hometown of Guangdong ginger". The autonomous county has jurisdiction over seven towns of Yoshida, Taibao, Wedong, Yonghe, Futang, Xiao Sanjiang, Shangshuai and three agriculture and forestry.
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