Phoenix (/ˈfiːnɪks/ FEE-niks; Navajo: Hoozdo; Spanish: Fénix or Fínix,[citation needed] Walapai: Banyà:nyuwá) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state
of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the only U.S. state capital with a population of more than one million residents.
Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan area is the 11th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.85 million people as of 2020. Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa County, has the largest area of all cities in Arizona, with an area of 517.9 square miles (1,341 km2), and is also the 11th largest city by area in the United States. It is the largest metropolitan area, both by population and size, of the Arizona Sun Corridor megaregion.
Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County (Daozhen County for short) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Zunyi City, named after Yin Daozhen, a scholar in the Han Dynasty. Daozhen County is located in the northernmost part of Guizhou Province and is the slope zone of the transition from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Sichuan Basin. It is adjacent to Nanchuan District, Wulong District and Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing in the northwest and northeast. The southwest and southeast are bordered by Zheng'an County and Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County respectively. 180 km to the south of Zunyi, 338 km to Guiyang and 160 km to Chongqing, it is the "joint" between the central Guizhou economic zone and the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and the bridgehead of opening up and cooperation between Guizhou and Chongqing. By the end of 2017, Daozhen County had jurisdiction over 1 street, 11 towns, 2 townships and 1 nationality township, with a registered population of 350900 and a resident population of 247300. 2019