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San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California in the United States. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.

San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred by leading universities, high-tech, healthcare, FIRE, and professional services sectors. As of 2020, the metropolitan area, with 6.7 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP ($874 billion) and 2nd by GDP per capita ($131,082) across the OECD countries, ahead of global cities like Paris, London, and Singapore. San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 4.6 million residents, and the fourth-largest by aggregate income and economic output, with a GDP of $669 billion in 2021. The wider San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area is the fifth most populous, with 9.5 million residents, and the third-largest by economic output, with a GDP of $1.25 trillion in 2021. In the same year, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $236.4 billion, and a GDP per capita of $289,990. San Francisco was ranked seventh in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2022.

Alar, a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, implements the integrated management system with the first Division of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, which is managed by the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. It extends from the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain to the north of Taklimakan Desert in the south, Shaya County in the east, Keping County in the west, Aksu River, Tarim River, Tellan River and Duolang River in the north, and Xinhe County in the northeast. The distance between east and west is 281 km and that between north and south is 180 km. Bordering with Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and close to Pakistan and India, it has rich border ports and border trade resources. Alar means "converge, converge" in Mongolian. The geographical coordinates are 80 °30'E to 81 °58 °E and 40 °22'to 40 °57'N. In 2016, Alar was killed
Travel Notes In Alaer
Great America Xinjiang (Hotian-Alar-Aksu-Kuqa)
Hotan has had three treasures since ancient times, and these three treasures are Hetian jade, carpets and Adelaise silk. Hotan is worthy of its name a
Cross the Tianshan Mountains, let your heart fly, magnificent travel, beautiful Xinjiang! (Four)
After walking the Duku Highway yesterday, it was almost dark when we arrived in Kuqa. The three of us decided not to live in tents, but to find a hote
Traveling Around the World (1424) Revisiting Southern Xinjiang No. 19: Escape in Three Days and Two Nights
On October 24, 2020, after visiting the Populus euphratica Scenic Spot in Zepu County, we had lunch at this restaurant in Zepu County. After a full me
Crossing the desert road from Alar to Hotan
In April 2017, I searched for historical sites in Xinjiang, crossed the desert road from Alar to Hetian, departed from Aksu in the morning, crossed Al