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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.

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the only autonomous prefecture in Jilin Province, is the capital of Yanji City. Located in the border between China and North Korea in the east of Jilin Province in northeast China, the whole terrain is high in the west and low in the east, tilting from the southwest, northwest and northeast to the southeast, located in the mid-temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, belonging to the mid-temperate humid monsoon climate. The state has a total area of 43300 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 cities and 2 counties with a population of 2.1014 million in 2017. Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture has 11 ports to North Korea and Russia, and the port cargo volume accounts for more than 90% of Jilin Province; there is an international airport with direct flights to first-tier cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and countries around the Sea of Japan. The Tumen River is the only waterway for China's inland to enter the Sea of Japan. Yanbian is China's only Korean autonomous prefecture and the largest Korean-inhabited area, accounting for 42. 5% of China's Korean population.
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