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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.

Kashgar, one of the five regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is based in Kashgar. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and open on one side, it belongs to the warm temperate continental arid climate zone, with four distinct seasons and long light, with a total area of 162000 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of 1 city and 11 counties, and a total population of 4.6497 million in 2017. The ancient Kashgar area is known as "Shule" and "Shu Fu", including ancient Shule (present-day Kashgar City, Shufu County, Shule County, Jiashi County), Puli (present-day Tashkurgan), Shacha, Yinai (present-day Yingjisha and Aktao), Wuhe House (present-day Tashkurgan), Xinight (present-day Yecheng) and other places. As the traffic hub of the ancient Silk Road, Kashgar is an international commercial port where Chinese and foreign businessmen gather, and it is also the only national historical and cultural city in Xinjiang.
Travel Notes In Kashgar Prefecture
Charm Pamir
August 8 sunny Itinerary: Kashi - Baisha Lake - Karakule Lake - Taxkorgan County People in China know that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the roof of t
Traveling Around the World (1417) Revisiting Southern Xinjiang No. 12: Lake Karakul and Muztag Peak
On October 21, 2020, after finishing our tour at Baisha Lake and Baisha Mountain, we continued along National Highway 314. When the bus drove to an al
20 days self-driving to play the beautiful Xinjiang
7.7——7.26 lasted 20 days, and enjoyed the northern and southern Xinjiang D1 Qingdao - Hohhot At 5 o'clock in the morning, facing the morning sun with
The Paradise in the depths of Kunlun—Tal Township
Xinghua Village, Tar Township, Southern Xinjiang Every year from the end of March to the beginning of April, when the apricot blossoms are in full bl