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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.

Qilin District, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is the seat of Qujing Municipal Government. It is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, in the middle of the eastern Yunnan Plateau, in the upper reaches of Nanpanjiang River, between 103 °29 degrees east longitude and 104 °14 degrees east longitude and 26 °06 degrees north latitude. It is 137km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 1552.84 square kilometers. In 2017, Qilin District has a registered population of 749900, with a GDP of 63.3 billion yuan, and has jurisdiction over 13 streets and 3 towns. The terrain is high from east to west and low from north to south, with mountains, river valleys and hills interlaced with each other. The urban area is 1875 meters above sea level. Guiyang-Kunming Railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 326 are distributed radially in the territory. Qilin District has been appraised as the national sustainable development experimental area, the national ecological demonstration area and the national science popularization demonstration area.
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