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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.

Qiaojia County is located in the northeast of Yunnan Province and the southwest of Zhaotong City, with geographical coordinates of 26 °32 °N, 27 °25 °N and 102 °52 °E, 103 °26'E. Qiaojia County borders Huize County of Qujing City in the east, Dongchuan District of Kunming City in the south, Liangshan Prefecture East, Ningnan, Butuo and Jinyang in Sichuan Province in the west, and Zhaoyang District and Ludian County in Zhaotong City across the Niulan River in the north. It is located in the heart of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. The county covers an area of 3245 square kilometers, with a width of about 57 kilometers from east to west and 98 kilometers from north to south. Qiaojia County people's Government is stationed in Baihetan Town, which is 268 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, 151 kilometers from Zhaotong and 169 kilometers from Xichang, Sichuan.
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