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Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, also known as Washington or D.C. or locally simply as the District, is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia, and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its other sides. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, and the federal district is named after Columbia, the female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations, the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S., with over 20 million annual visitors as of 2016.

The U.S. Constitution provides for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; the district is not a part of any U.S. state (nor is it one itself). The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's East Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791, and Congress held its first session there in 1800. In 1801, the territory, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia, including the city of Alexandria; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district. There have been efforts to make the city into a state since the 1880s, a movement that has gained momentum in recent years, and a statehood bill passed the House of Representatives in 2021.

Anhui, abbreviated as "Anhui", named after the first words of Anqing and Huizhou at that time, is a provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China. Hefei, the provincial capital. Located in East China, Anhui is bounded by 114o 54km east longitude, 119o 37km east longitude and 29o 41mm north latitude, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the east, Henan and Hubei provinces in the west, Jiangxi province in the south, Shandong province in the north, and Anhui province covering a total area of 140100 square kilometers. Anhui Province is located in East China, near the Yangtze River, with 800 miles of urban agglomeration along the Yangtze River and the Wanjiang Economic Belt, with the Yangtze River waterway inside and the economic radiation of the coastal areas on the outside. The terrain is composed of plains, hills and mountains; it spans the three major river systems of the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River. Anhui Province is located in the transitional zone between warm temperate zone and subtropical zone. The north of the Huaihe River has a warm temperate semi-humid monsoon climate.
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