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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.

Alashankou, which belongs to Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is built according to Alashan pass. It is located between Alatao Mountain and Baruch Mountain, bordering Kazakhstan in the north, Tali County in Tacheng area in the east, Abby Lake in the south and Bole City in the west. It is 79 kilometers away from the state capital Bole, 477 kilometers away from Urumqi by railway and 500 kilometers by road, and 12 kilometers away from the adjacent Dosterk port in Kazakhstan. The total area of the city is 1204 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over Ala Street and Ebinur Lake Town, with a permanent population of 11000. In May 2011, the State Council approved the establishment of Alashankou Comprehensive Free Trade Zone. In December 2012, Alashankou City was established. In 2014, the local GDP of Alashankou City reached 4.27 billion yuan, an increase over the same period in 2013.
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