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Tulsa (/ˈtʌlsə/) is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 1,023,988 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with urban development extending into Osage, Rogers, and Wagoner counties.

Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe and most of Tulsa is still part of the territory of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.[a]

Historically, a robust energy sector fueled Tulsa's economy; however, today the city has diversified and leading sectors include finance, aviation, telecommunications and technology. Two institutions of higher education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level: Oral Roberts University and the University of Tulsa. As well, the University of Oklahoma has a secondary campus at the Tulsa Schusterman Center, and Oklahoma State University has a secondary campus located in downtown Tulsa. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname "Oil Capital of the World" and played a major role as one of the most important hubs for the American oil industry.

Xihe County belongs to Longnan City, Gansu Province, located in the southeast of Gansu Province, the northern end of Longnan City, because of the ancient West and the state and the county name. In the Western Han Dynasty, he bought Wudu County in Luoyu (now Luoyu Town), Qiu Chi State in the two Jin dynasties, South Qinzhou in Luoyu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and changed it into a state in the Western Wei Dynasty. After many changes, Minzhou was changed to Xihe Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Xihe Prefecture became a county in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. Xihe County has jurisdiction over 16 towns and 4 townships, covering an area of 1861 square kilometers and a total population of 437633 (2015). Xihe County is located in the south of the West Qinling Mountains and the upper reaches of the Jialing River system in the Yangtze River Basin. It is a warm temperate semi-humid climate with four distinct seasons. Xihe County is known as the "precious rehabilitation zone". The natural resources are mainly represented by antimony ore, lead-zinc ore and Pinellia ternata and Zanthoxylum bungeanum.
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