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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.

Ningxian County, which belongs to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is located in the eastern part of Gansu Province, between longitude 107o41'to 108o34cm east, latitude 35o15' to 35o52' north, Ziwuling in the east, Jinghe and Shaanxi Province in the south, Heshui County in the northwest, Xifeng District and Zhengning County in the southeast, and the Malian River passing through the county from north to south. It is the main river of Ningxian County, with a total area of 2633 square kilometers. As of 2014, Ningxian County has jurisdiction over 14 towns, 4 townships, 257 administrative villages and 13 communities, with a total population of 556100. In 2012, the county achieved a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 4.714 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.0% in terms of comparable prices. Ningxian County has Xiangle Song Pagoda, Puzhao Temple Zhenyuan Bell, Ta'erzhuang five dynasties Pagoda, Wang Xiaoxi Martyrs Memorial Hall and so on.
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