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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.

Baiyin District belongs to Baiyin City, Gansu Province. Baiyin gets its name because of the mine and because of the enterprise area. Located in central Gansu, western Baiyin City, the middle upper reaches of the Yellow River, located in the northwest edge of the Longxi Loess Plateau, the general trend of topography is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an average elevation of 1946.5 meters. It borders Gaolan County, Lanzhou City in the west, the Yellow River in the south, Qingcheng Town in Yuzhong County and Pingbao Township in Jingyuan County, Liuchuan Township in Jingyuan County in the east, and Zhongquan Township in Jingtai County in the north. With a total area of 1372 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 3 towns and 2 townships. In 2017, the registered population of Baiyin District was 290381. In 2017, Baiyin District achieved a GDP of 19.957 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6 percent over the same period last year. In July 2019, it was selected as the pilot county (district) of the national intellectual property strong county project.
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