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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.

Longnan, the prefecture-level administrative district (city) under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, is located at the southeast end of Gansu Province, bordering Shaanxi Province to the east, Nantong Sichuan Province, and the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. It is a strategic passage connecting Lanbai, Chengdu and Chongqing, and Guantian three major economic zones. Northwest-southwest important transportation hub connection, known as "Qinlong lock key, Ba Shu throat". It has jurisdiction over Wudu District, Kang County, Wen County, Cheng County, Huizhou County, Liangdang County, Xihe County, Li County and Dangchang County, covering an area of 27900 square kilometers and a total population of 2.8816 million (2018). Longnan is located in the Qinba Mountains, the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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