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Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, fifth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, ninth-most populous city in the Southeast and the 42nd-most populous city in the U.S. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is the largest city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. This area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads.

Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament. It is also home to several state parks, several long-protected beach areas, military bases, a number of large corporations, Virginia Wesleyan University and Regent University, the international headquarters and site of the television broadcast studios for Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, and numerous historic sites. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607.

Kunming, also known as Chuncheng, is the capital of Yunnan Province, the central city of central Yunnan urban agglomeration, and one of the important central cities in western China approved by the State Council. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over seven districts, three counties, three autonomous counties and one county-level city, with a total area of 21473 square kilometers, a built-up area of 435.81 square kilometers, a resident population of 6.85 million, an urban population of 4.9902 million, and a urbanization rate of 72.85 percent. Kunming is located in southwest China and the middle of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with the unique location of "connecting the coast of Guizhou and Guitong in the east, entering the Central Plains through Sichuan and Chongqing in the north, reaching Thailand / Cambodia in the south, and connecting India and Pakistan in the west". It is located at the intersection of the north-south international channel and the third east-west Eurasian continental bridge starting from Shenzhen.
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