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Sacramento (/ˌsækrəˈmɛntoʊ/ SAK-rə-MEN-toh; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento], Spanish for ''sacrament'') is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American River in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's 2020 population of 524,943 makes it the sixth-largest city in California and the ninth-largest capital in the United States. Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California, making it the state's political center and a hub for lobbying and think tanks. It features the California State Capitol Museum.

Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the Greater Sacramento area, which at the 2020 census had a population of 2,680,831, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in California.

Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area was inhabited by the historic Nisenan, Maidu, and other indigenous peoples of California. Spanish cavalryman Gabriel Moraga surveyed and named the Río del Santísimo Sacramento (Sacramento River) in 1808, after the Blessed Sacrament. In 1839, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican governor of Alta California, granted the responsibility of colonizing the Sacramento Valley to Swiss-born Mexican citizen John Augustus Sutter, who subsequently established Sutter's Fort and the settlement at the Rancho Nueva Helvetia. Following the American Conquest of California and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the waterfront developed by Sutter began to be developed, and incorporated in 1850 as the City of Sacramento.

Guide County is located in the east of Qinghai Province and the southeast of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, covering an area of 3504 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 4 towns, 3 townships, 119 administrative villages and 108800 people. 15 ethnic groups, including Han, Tibetan, Hui, Tu and Sala, live in harmony, thrive and make common progress. Guide County is known as "Little Jiangnan of the Plateau", "hometown of Pear Capital" and "back Garden" of Xining, the provincial capital. In 2012, the regional gross domestic product (GDP) reached 2.906 billion yuan. In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization.
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