Oklahoma City (/oʊkləˌhoʊmə -/ (listen)), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and is the 8th largest city in the Southern United States. The population grew following the 2010 census and reached 687,725 in the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma's largest municipality and metropolitan area by population.
Oklahoma City's city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside the core Oklahoma County area are suburban tracts or protected rural zones (watershed). The city is the eighth-largest in the United States by area including consolidated city-counties; it is the second-largest, after Houston, not including consolidated cities. The city is also the second largest by area among state capital cities in the United States, after Juneau, Alaska.
Huaibei, referred to as "Huai", called "Xiangcheng" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The central city in the northeast of Anhui Province, an important energy city in the country. Located in the north of Anhui Province, it is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, Xiao County in the north, Bozhou in the south, Suzhou in the east and Shangqiu in Henan Province in the west. It is 150km long from north to south and 50km from east to west, with a total area of 2802 square kilometers, making it the smallest prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The total population in 2016 is 2.165 million. It has jurisdiction over three municipal districts in Xiangshan District, Liishan District, Duji District and one county in Suixi County. The municipal government is stationed in Xiangshan District. Huaibei has a long history and a gathering of humanities. More than four thousand years ago, the eleven ancestors of Shang and Tang Dynasty built the city at the southern foot of Xiangshan, which was the beginning of civilization. Since then, successive dynasties have set up counties and counties here. There are Uncle Yu, Huan Tan, Ji Kang, Liu Ling and so on.