Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee, after Nashville.
Memphis is the fifth-most populous city in the Southeast, the nation's 28th-largest overall, as well as the largest city bordering the Mississippi River. The Memphis metropolitan area includes West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi and the Missouri Bootheel. One of the more historic and culturally significant cities of the Southern United States, Memphis has a wide variety of landscapes and distinct neighborhoods.
Balikun, which means "Tiger Lake" in Turkic language, gets its name from Balikun Lake; it is the homonym of "Balkule" in Mongolian, meaning "tiger's front paws", which is named after the dangerous terrain; and it is the ancient Yue language. Balikun Kazakh Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Hami City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. Balikun Kazakh Autonomous County, established on September 30, 1954, is located in northeastern Xinjiang, bordering Yiwu County to the east, Yizhou District to the south, Kazakh Autonomous County to the west, Mongolia to the north, and one of the three Kazakh autonomous counties in the country. it is also a key county for poverty alleviation and development in Xinjiang. it is a typical border county, Gaohan county and disaster-prone county in Xinjiang. it was identified as five categories of areas by China in 2006. The border line between China and Mongolia is 309 kilometers long, and there are seasonally open ports in China.