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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.

Linqing City, under the jurisdiction of county-level cities in Shandong Province, is hosted by Liaocheng City; located in the northwest of Shandong Province, at the confluence of Zhangwei River and the ancient canal, opposite Hebei Province, the terrain is flat, with few ups and downs, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, which is a typical continental monsoon climate; the total area is 960 square kilometers, with 12 towns and 4 streets; the total population in 2016 is 821200. The county system was established in Linqing at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, thanks to the developed water transport of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and economic and social prosperity for more than 500 years, it was an important circulation hub city and a well-known commercial city in the country at that time. Beijing-Kowloon high-speed railway will set up stations in Linqing, 2 highways (Xinglin Expressway and German-Shang Expressway) and 7 national and provincial highways (Provincial Highway 315, Linguan Road, Linxin Road, Liaolin Road and Linlin Road).
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