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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.

Xingan, which belongs to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, is located in the northeast of Inner Mongolia, connected with Heilongjiang Province in the northeast, Jilin Province in the southeast, Tongliao City in the south, Xilingol League and Hulunbuir City in the south, west and north, respectively. The northwest is bordered by Mongolia and the border is 126 kilometers long. The alliance is 380km long from north to south and 320km wide from east to west, with a total area of 59806 square kilometers. Xingan gets its name because it is located in the middle of the Daxing'an Mountains, and "Xing'an" means hills. By the end of 2018, Xingan had jurisdiction over two county-level cities, one county and three banners, with a resident population of 1.6079 million and a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 47.248 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 15.418 billion yuan and that of the secondary industry was 13.682 billion.
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