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.
Liupanshui City is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province. Liupanshui City is located in Wumeng Mountain area of western Guizhou, with an annual average temperature of 15 ℃, an average temperature of 19.7 ℃ in summer and an average temperature of 3 ℃ in winter. With a cool, comfortable, moist, fresh climate and moderate ultraviolet radiation, it has been awarded the title of "cool capital of China" by the Chinese Meteorological Association and is the only city in the country named after its climatic characteristics. During the Spring and Autumn period, Liupanshui was a dependency of Yelang; during the warring States period, the city was a dependency of Yelang, which entered the farming era and reflected the characteristics of slave production relations due to the use of metal tools; after Qin unified China, it was a dependency of Hanyang County, Ba County. Liupanshui is located in the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the watershed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers, and both sides of the Nanpanjiang and Beipanjiang basins, which is rich in mineral resources. Traffic extends in all directions and is important in the southwest.