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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.

Gar County, located in the westernmost part of Tibet, along the Sengezangbu and Garzangbu basins, is one of the 18 border counties in Tibet. The area is 17197 square kilometers. The cultivated area is 8900 mu. The total population is 42000. It has jurisdiction over 4 townships, 1 town and 11 administrative villages. Gar County is surrounded by mountains, the middle is low and flat, the average elevation is about 4350 meters, and the highest elevation is 6554 meters. There are 12 large and small lakes in the county, of which the larger ones are Langjiu Lake and Xinga Lake. There are three main highways in Gar County, namely, Yeshi Highway, Ari Highway and Hei Highway. The mileage of highways in the country is 498 kilometers. With Shiquanhe Town as the center, Kunsha Airport is officially opened to traffic, and the natural cutting becomes open to traffic. In October 2018, the people's Government of Tibet Autonomous region formally approved that Gar County withdrew from poverty-stricken counties (districts).
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