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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.

Altay region, one of the five regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is under the jurisdiction of Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and is based in Altay City. Located in the north of Xinjiang, bordering Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia; the landforms are complex and diverse, dry and hot in summer and cold in winter; the total area is 117989.21 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of six counties and one city; the total population in 2017 is 671616. Altay region is the only area bordering Russia in northwest China, and it is an important node city of the Silk Road Economic Belt and Xinjiang participating in the construction of China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor; it has four national land ports; it is a relatively abundant water area in Xinjiang and is known as the "water tower" in northern Xinjiang; it is one of the six major forest areas in China, and it has been identified by the State Council as the ecological functional area of mountain grassland with water conservation. twenty
Travel Notes In Altay Prefecture
Twenty thousand miles north and south of Tianshan Mountains (1)
From July 6th to 28th, eight friends from four families were invited to drive two cars, driving more than 11,500 kilometers, and completed a trip acro
Keketuohai, the second largest cold pole in China, becomes a fairy tale in autumn
The early autumn of Keketuohai is dreamy and colorful. Walking in the depths of the birch forest, the Irtysh River shone with a sapphire-like deep lus
Car rental self-driving tour in Xinjiang (16 days)
20220628 (D1 day) flight to Urumqi, Xinjiang, overnight stay at Vienna Hotel on Beijing Road, Urumqi. 20220629 (D2 day) 9:00 am depart for Altay regio
Xinjiang, a place to travel alone to cure my depression (Great geography in northern Xinjiang, humanities in southern Xinjiang) 11 days
I have fantasized about going to Xinjiang many times, because it is so beautiful, and then this little dream was finally no match for the persecution