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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.

Xichong County, which belongs to Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, is located in the north-east of Sichuan Basin, the southwest of Nanchong City, Shunqing District in the east, Jialing District in the south, Yanting County in Mianyang City, Pengxi County and Shehong County in Suining City in the west, and Nanbu County in the north. The total area is 1106.59 square kilometers, and the county seat is 25 kilometers away from Nanchong city in the north. There is Xichong Mountain in ancient times, so it is named Xichong, which is the ecological back garden and satellite city of Nanchong. Belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, shallow hilly landform, the average annual temperature is 16.9 ℃, the annual rainfall is 980.8 mm, the average elevation is 361.2 meters, the frost-free period is more than 300 days, the four seasons are distinct, and the climate is mild. As of 2019, Xichong County has jurisdiction over 16 towns, 5 townships and 2 streets. By the end of 2017, the total population of Xichong County was 605900.
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