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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.

Minxian, which belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, is named because of Minshan, which is located in the south of Dingxi City, Gansu Province. The establishment of Minxian County can be traced back to the eighth year of Qin Wangzheng (239 BC), which was called Lintao, which was the western starting point of the Qin Great Wall. Minzhou was established in the 10th year of Emperor Wendi's Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 544), changed to Minxian County in 1913, and was placed under the jurisdiction of Dingxi after 1985. Minxian County has jurisdiction over 9 townships and 9 towns, with a total area of 3578 square kilometers and a total population of 490300 (2014). The government is resident in Minyang Town. Minxian County is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the Gannan grassland to the Loess Plateau, Longnan mountain transition zone, the territory elevation of 2040-3754 meters, known as "Longyuan dry Wharf". The climate is plateau continental climate, low temperature and dry, frequent natural disasters.
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