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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.

Shimian County, which belongs to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, is located in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the southwest of Ya'an City, and its geographical coordinates are 101 °55 in longitude and 102 °34 in longitude and 29 °32 in latitude. Shimian County has a total area of 2678 square kilometers. It belongs to the mountain climate with mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate as the base belt, with concentrated summer rain, more night rain, less storms and no autumn continuous rain. Shimian County has jurisdiction over 1 street, 1 town, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships, and the county government is stationed in the streets of Mian City. As of 2018, the total registered population of the county is 128800. In the thirteenth year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1833), the soil was changed and the land of the fourteen fortresses was placed in Shunhe Township. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was "ready to establish a constitution". Shunhe became an autonomous township of its own, all on the north bank.
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