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.
Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (Tianzhu County for short), which is under the jurisdiction of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, is the first area to exercise regional ethnic autonomy after the founding of the people's Republic of China. Tianzhu, known as Huarui in Tibetan, means heroic tribe. The Summer Solstice was the pastoral land of Rong Qiang, Yueshi, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups in the early Han Dynasty, which was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. after the Tang Dynasty, it gradually formed a multi-ethnic settlement with Tubo (present-day Tibetan) as the main ethnic group. Tianzhu County is located in the middle of Gansu Province, in the south of Wuwei City, in the Hexi Corridor and the eastern end of Qilian Mountains. Jingtai County in the east, Menyuan County in Haibei Prefecture of Qinghai Province in the west, Huzhu County in Haidong City and Ledu District in Haidong City in the west, Yongdeng County in the south, Liangzhou District and Gulang County in the north, and Sunan County in the northwest. By the end of 2011, Tianzhu County covers an area of 7149 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 9 towns and 10 towns.