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.
Qidong County is named because the county seat is in the east of Qishan. The county under the jurisdiction of Hengyang City, Hunan Province is located in the southwest of Hengyang City and the north bank of the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River, with long and narrow east and west, high in the north and low in the south. The county has jurisdiction over 23 townships and 910 administrative villages (community neighborhood committees). It is famous as "the hometown of Huanghua in China", "the hometown of generals", "the hometown of ferrous metal" and the only "hometown of Chinese Quyi" in Hunan Province. In recent years, it has won the titles of "provincial civilized county" and "top ten urban and rural environmental sanitation counties in the province". Qidong was the land of Yangyue in ancient times and belonged to the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. Qi Opera in Qidong is one of the excellent operas in China. Jiang Kui, prime minister of Shu of the three Kingdoms, Ning Liang and Chen Jie, important officials of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Dashu of the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Ruqi, a general of the Red Army, Cao Yan, a revolutionary, and the painter Guan Jifei were all conceived here. At present, there are Qi Dong generals 14