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.
Nie Rong County is under the jurisdiction of Naqu City, Tibet Autonomous region, located in the northern part of the Tibet Autonomous region, the southern foot of Tanggula Mountain, located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and on the border with Qinghai Province. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The average elevation is about 4700 meters. The territory has undulating mountains and vertical and horizontal gullies, some peaks in the northwest are covered with snow all the year round, the relative height difference between the central and southern peaks is large, and the low mountains and hills are scattered with valleys. Nie Rong County has jurisdiction over 1 district, 9 townships and 173 villages. It covers an area of 14540 square kilometers, of which the available grassland area is 18 million mu. The financial revenue of the county reached 1.2 million yuan in 2003, an increase of 53000 yuan over 2002, with a total population of 30, 000 (2003). On February 6, 2019, the people's Government of the Tibet Autonomous region decided to withdraw Nierong County from the poverty-stricken county.