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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.

Qu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Dazhou City, and is connected with Guang'an, Nanchong and Bazhong landscapes. The geographical coordinates are between 106 °38 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 15 miles east, and 31 degrees 16 degrees north latitude. Quxian is located in the transitional zone between the parallel ridges and valleys in eastern Sichuan and the purple hilly region in central Sichuan, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 2013 square kilometers. As of 2018, qu County has jurisdiction over 60 townships, with a registered population of 1.3438 million and a resident population of 1.1161 million. Qu County had human activities as early as the Neolithic Age. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Shang people established the national capital city in Chengba Village, Tuxi Town. In the first year of King Zhou (314 BC), Dangqu County was set up, and qu County was named in the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376). It also built a county.
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