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.
Yexian County, located in the southwest-central part of Henan Province, is the "rock salt capital of China". It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 9 towns, 6 townships, 880000 people (2011), with a total area of 1387 square kilometers. Yexian not only has a rich connotation of the county government of the Ming Dynasty, but also has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In ancient times, it was the land of Yuzhou, the state of Zhou, and the capital of the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. Yexian is the fiefdom of Shen Zhuliang, the first ancestor surnamed Ye, a famous statesman and military strategist, and it is the ancestral land of 23 million Ye descendants in the world. Yexian County is rich in mineral resources, with salt as the most, with an area of 400square kilometers and reserves of 330 billion tons. It ranks first in the grade of well and mineral salt in the country and is named quot;-quot;, the rock salt capital of China by the National Mining Federation. May 2019