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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.

Zhongshan, known as "Xiangshan" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, one of the five prefecture-level cities in the country without zones, one of the central cities in the Pearl River Delta, an important node city in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, and one of the regional central cities in Guangdong. It has maintained the fifth economic output of Guangdong Province for many years, and is known as the four tigers of Guangdong together with Shunde, Nanhai and Dongguan. Xiangshan County, formerly known as Xiangshan County, was established in 1152. In 1925, it was renamed Zhongshan County in memory of Sun Yat-sen. It is located at the lower reaches of the West and Beijiang River south-central of the Pearl River Delta, with Panyu District of Guangzhou City and Shunde District of Foshan City to the north, Jiangmen City, Xinhui District and Doumen District of Zhuhai City to the west, Zhuhai City to the southeast and Zhujiang Estuary to the east.
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