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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.

Fuping County, which belongs to Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the transitional zone between Guanzhong Plain and Northern Shaanxi Plateau in the middle of Shaanxi Province. It is bordered by Pucheng County and Weinan City in the east, Lintong District and Yanliang District in the south, Yaozhou District in Tongchuan City in the west, Sanyuan County in Xianyang City and Yintai District in Tongchuan City in the north. It is between 108 °57 east longitude 109 °26 km east longitude and 34 °42 km north latitude, 35 °06 'north latitude, 47 km from north to south and 34 km from east to west, with a total area of 1242 square kilometers. Fuping County gets its name from the meaning of "affluence and peace". It is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. as early as the ancient times when human civilization was still ignorant, the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, used the bronze of Shouyang to cast it on the top of Nanjingshan, and when Dayu ruled the world, he cast nine tripods, which symbolized the supreme power.
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