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.
Shihezi, a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, implements a division-city management system with the eighth Division of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, which is managed by the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. Located in the middle part of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, in the south of Junggar Basin, covering an area of 460 square kilometers, 150 kilometers east of Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, Shihezi University, one of the two 211 universities in Xinjiang. Shihezi was once the headquarters of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and then moved to Urumqi. Shihezi is a new city of military reclamation, which relies on farms, is dominated by industry, the combination of industry and agriculture, the combination of urban and rural areas, and the integration of agriculture, industry and commerce. Shihezi is famous for its reputation as "Gobi Pearl". In June 2017, Shihezi was named as a national health city. In the same year, Shihezi City confirmed that it would continue to retain the honorary title of national civilized city.