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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.

Pingli County, which belongs to Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, is located between 31 °37mm in north latitude and 109 °- 109 °33' in east longitude. It is bordered by Zhuxi County in Hubei Province in the east, Chengkou County in Chongqing in the south, Langao County in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province in the west, and Ankang City, Hanbin District, Xunyang County in Shaanxi Province in the north, and at the junction of Shaanxi, Hubei and Chongqing provinces in the north. The county seat is 60 kilometers away from the central city of Ankang City and 263 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xi'an. Pingli County is the "hometown of Nu WA". With 150000 mu of ecological tea garden and 38000 mu of gynostemma pentaphyllum, Pingli County is the first county in the production of gynostemma pentaphyllum and a famous tea county in Northwest China. In 2018, Pingli County had jurisdiction over 11 towns, with a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 9.962 billion yuan, including 1.069 billion yuan for the primary industry.
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