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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.

Pinglu District is under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, with geographical coordinates between 112 °41 °east longitude and 39 °21 °Mel 39 °58 'north latitude. Located between the Great Wall inside and outside the northwest of Shanxi Province, it is located in the northern border of Shanxi Province, bordering Qingshuihe and Helinger in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, Pianguan and Shenchi counties in Xinzhou City in the southwest, Shuocheng District in the south, Shanyin in the east, and Youyu in the northeast. 69.5km from north to south and 67.9km from east to west, with a triangular shape, has a total land area of 2314 square kilometers and a total population of 185000 (2005). It has jurisdiction over 11 townships, 2 towns and 352 administrative villages. Formerly known as Pinglu County, when the State Council approved Shuozhou as a prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province in 1988, the county was changed to the area under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou. There is Shuobei Xiongcheng.
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