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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.

Mingshui County, under the jurisdiction of Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, is located in the southwest of Heilongjiang Province, northwest of Songnen Plain. It is bordered by Helen in the east, Lindian in the west, Qinggang in the south and Baiquan in the north. It is 86 km long from east to west and 31.5 km wide from north to south. The total area is 2400 square kilometers, with an area of 1.63 million mu of arable land, 700000 mu of grassland and 540000 mu of woodland. Mingshui County has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 7 townships with a population of 350000 (2010). Mingshui is located at high latitudes and belongs to the sub-humid climate of mid-temperate zone, with an average temperature of 2.9 ℃, annual sunshine of 2800 hours and annual average precipitation of about 480mm. Mingshui County is known as "one forest, two grasses, seven fields". National Highway 202 (Harbin first Class Highway) runs through the whole territory, and forms traffic extending in all directions with Minghai, Mingsan and Mingshen secondary national roads.
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