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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.

Daofu County belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, which is located in the northwest of Sichuan Province and northeast of Ganzi Prefecture. The geographic coordinates are 100 °32 degrees east longitude and 101 °44 degrees east longitude, and 30 °32 'north latitudes. The Xianshuihe fault zone, located on the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is bordered by Danba in the east, Xinlong County in the west, Kangding County and Yajiang County in the south, and Jinchuan and Rangtang Counties in Luhuo and Aba Prefecture in the north. Daofu County covers an area of 7053 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 18 townships. At the end of 2011, the registered population was 55290, with a natural population growth rate of 7.22 ‰ and a birth rate of 11.37 ‰. The regional GDP of Daofu County in 2011 was 483 million yuan, an increase of 13% over 2010, and the per capita disposable income of urban residents reached 12773 yuan.
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