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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.

Shiquan County is located in the west of Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, with Qinling Mountains and Nanqianba Mountain in the north, located in the hinterland of Qinba and the bank of Han River, with a total area of 1525 square kilometers. It is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development. Shiquan County was founded in the first year of Emperor Fei in the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 525). It was named because of "many springs in the stone gap in the south of the city and endless runoff". Shiquan County is a national health county and provincial garden county; it is an important destination of Qinba Han River eco-tourism, known as "Qinba landscape, Shiquan ten beauties"; it is the first sericulture industry county in the west, known as "the source of the Silk Road and the hometown of golden silkworms"; it is an important water conservation place for the national south-to-north water transfer and an important electric energy base in the west. It is an important birthplace of pre-Qin culture. Gui Guzi, the ancestor of the vertical and horizontal school, practiced and taught his apprentice in Shiquan County, also known as the hometown of Gui Guzi.
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