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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.

Shiqu County, which belongs to Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is located in the junction of Sichuan, Qinghai and Tibet provinces on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Shiqu County is one of the most remote and inconvenient counties in Sichuan Province. Shiqu starts from the southern foot of Bayan Kara Mountain in the north, reaches the Mora Mountain Section of the Saluli Mountains in the south, borders Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai in the northwest, Jiangda County in Tibet in the southwest, and Seda County and Dege County in the southeast. It is 696 kilometers away from Kangding and 1070 kilometers away from Chengdu, with an average elevation of 4520 meters above sea level. By the end of 2018, Shiqu County had an area of 25191 square kilometers and had jurisdiction over 4 working committees, 7 towns, 15 townships, 1 state-owned pastures, 170 villages and 4 neighborhood committees, with a total resident population of 101294 at the end of 2017. In 2018, the regional GDP reached 992 million yuan, an increase of 6% over the same period last year.
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