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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.

Qujing is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the east of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces and regions, known as "the key of Yunnan and Guizhou" and "Yunnan throat". It is 120km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 28900 square kilometers, accounting for 13.63% of the area of Yunnan Province. As of April 2018, Qujing City has jurisdiction over 1 city, 3 districts and 5 counties. At the end of 2016, the total registered population of the city was 6.5297 million. Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains of the transitional zone from the eastern Yunnan plateau to the western Guizhou plateau in the middle of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau. The west is embedded with the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau, the eastern part is gradually inclined to the Guizhou Plateau, and the central part is a watershed zone between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. There are eight unique languages of Yi, Buyi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.
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