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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.

Shimian County, which belongs to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, is located in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the southwest of Ya'an City, and its geographical coordinates are 101 °55 in longitude and 102 °34 in longitude and 29 °32 in latitude. Shimian County has a total area of 2678 square kilometers. It belongs to the mountain climate with mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate as the base belt, with concentrated summer rain, more night rain, less storms and no autumn continuous rain. Shimian County has jurisdiction over 1 street, 1 town, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships, and the county government is stationed in the streets of Mian City. As of 2018, the total registered population of the county is 128800. In the thirteenth year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1833), the soil was changed and the land of the fourteen fortresses was placed in Shunhe Township. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was "ready to establish a constitution". Shunhe became an autonomous township of its own, all on the north bank.
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