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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.

Pingdingshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, alias Eagle City, is located in Central China. Pingdingshan is an important energy and heavy industry base in the Central Plains Economic Zone, and it is also the central city of central Henan; it is high in the west and low in the east, with a trapezoidal distribution, and is located at the edge of warm temperate zone and northern subtropical climate; it now has jurisdiction over 2 cities, 4 counties and 4 districts with an area of 7882 square kilometers and a resident population of 5.2077 million in 2018. Pingdingshan is not only a resource-based industrial city, but also an excellent tourist city, a national garden city, a national forest city, a national sanitary city and a provincial civilized city. It is also the hometown of Chinese Quyi City, Chinese calligraphy City, the hometown of Chinese Guanyin Culture, the hometown of Chinese Ruyao Ceramic Art and the base of Tang Jun in China. There are 169 reservoirs in Pingdingshan, and the middle route of the South-to-North Water transfer Project passes through the city.
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