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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.

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County is located in the northeast of Qinghai Province, under the jurisdiction of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the east of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and adjacent to Gansu Province in the east and north. It is 150 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining and 250 kilometers away from Haiyan County, the capital of Haibei Prefecture. The total area is 6896 square kilometers. Menyuan County was established in 1929, Menyuan Hui Autonomous region was established in 1953, and changed to Menyuan Hui Autonomous County in 1955. In 2013, the GDP of Menyuan Hui Autonomous County reached 292 million yuan. Hui is the main ethnic group, accounting for about 40% of the total population, as well as Han, Tibetan, Turkish, Mongolian, Salar and other ethnic groups. The total population is 155800 (2013). The original name of Menyuan County was "Xianyuan" (Xi, m é n). Because the writing of the word "Qing" was too complicated, it was unified and simplified.
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