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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.

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (Linxia Prefecture for short) is one of the two major Hui Autonomous prefectures in China, which was established in November 1956. Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southwest of central Gansu Province, the upper reaches of the Yellow River. It is bordered by Lanzhou to the north, Lintao River to the east and Dingxi City to the east, Jishi Mountain to the west and Haidong area of Qinghai Province to the west, and Taizi Mountain to the south to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The total area is 8169 square kilometers. The resident population is 2.0441 million (2017). It has jurisdiction over 1 county-level city, 5 counties and 2 autonomous counties. In 2017, Linxia State achieved a GDP of 23.884 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 3.889 billion yuan, the secondary industry was 4.318 billion yuan, and the tertiary industry was 15.677 billion yuan.
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