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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.

Sihong County, under the jurisdiction of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, Hongze Lake to the east and Anhui to the west, located in the cross-radiation area of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone and the Huaihe River eco-economic belt, with an administrative area of 2731 square kilometers and a population of 1.1 million. It is the hometown of famous wine, crab and eco-tourism in China. Sihong is the wine capital of China. Shuanggou Daqu, one of the top ten famous wines, is produced here. Sihong sits on 40% of the water surface of Hongze Lake, one of the four major freshwater lakes in China, and is embedded in the national Hongze Lake Wetland Park. Sihong gave birth to an ancient civilization. Fifty thousand years ago, the people of Xiacaowan lived here after the water and thrived. It is one of the centers of biological evolution in the Cenozoic world, and it is also one of the centers of human origin.
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