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Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/, PORT-lənd) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. As of 2020, Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.

Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous port cities in the world, a hub for organized crime and racketeering. After the city's economy experienced an industrial boom during World War II, its hard-edged reputation began to dissipate. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its growing liberal and progressive political values, earning it a reputation as a bastion of counter-culture.

Xiangcheng, located in the southeast of Henan Province, Zhoukou City under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, located in the south of the Yellow River alluvial plain, the main tributary of the Huaihe River in the middle reaches of the Shaying River. Located at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, Da-Guang Expressway and Ningluo Expressway meet in the urban area, 106 National Highway and 5 provincial highways cross the whole territory, Luofu Railway connects Jingguang and Jingjiu, and Shaying River shipping runs directly to the Yangtze River. it is a better meeting point of people flow, material flow, capital flow and information flow in southeast Henan. In 2018, the city's GDP reached 33.991 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. Xiangcheng's industrial system, which is supported by monosodium glutamate, leather, medicine and textile, is the largest handmade shoe production base in China, the location of China's famous lotus monosodium glutamate, and the nearest waterway city in the central and western regions to the Yangtze River Delta. In 2011, he won the "Best Investment City in China" and "medium".
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