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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.

Yongning County, which belongs to Yinchuan City, is located in the middle of the Yellow River diversion Irrigation area of Yinchuan Plain in Ningxia, facing the Yellow River to the east and Helan Mountain to the west. It is a suburban county of Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, and is located to the south of Yinchuan City. It has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 1 township, 1 street and 2 state-owned farms, with a total area of 934 square kilometers and a total population of 230957 (2013). The government is stationed in Yang Wo Street. The Najia Mosque, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, Li Jun Pagoda and other monuments are key cultural relics protection units in Ningxia Hui Autonomous region. In 2012, Yongning County completed a regional GDP of 7.645 billion yuan and local revenue of 1.362 billion yuan. In October 2017, Yongning County was named the National Garden County by the Ministry of Housing and Construction. In November 2017, Yongning County was awarded the "Top Ten quality Leisure Counties of 2017 in China".
Travel Notes In Yongning County