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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.

Sichuan, referred to as Sichuan or Shu, is one of the 23 provinces in China, the capital of Chengdu. It is located in the inland of southwest China, bounded by 26 °03 north latitude 34 °19 miles north latitude and 97 °21 miles east longitude 108 °12 'east longitude, connecting Chongqing to the east, Yunnan and Guizhou to the south, Tibet to the west, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai to the north. The geomorphology of Sichuan Province varies greatly from east to west, and the topography is complex and diverse. it is located in the transitional zone between the first Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the second plain of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is located in the Chinese mainland topography. The topography is high in the west and low in the east. It is composed of mountains, hills, plain basins and plateaus. Sichuan Province has three major climates, namely, the humid climate in the middle subtropics of Sichuan Basin, the subtropical semi-humid climate in the mountains of southwest Sichuan, the alpine plateau climate in northwest Sichuan, and the overall pleasant climate.
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