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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.

Siping, a prefecture-level city in Jilin Province, is located in the central hinterland of Songliao Plain and at the junction of Liao, Jilin and Mongolia provinces. Siping is an important transportation hub and logistics node city in Northeast China, which leads to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in the eastern part of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. Siping has an area of 14323 square kilometers and a population of 3.204 million, including an urban area of 1100 square kilometers and a population of 625000. Siping has jurisdiction over Tiedong District, Tiexi District, Gongzhuling City, Shuangliao City, Lishu County and Yitong County. Siping has a long history, and the site of the ancient city of Yan on the bank of Erlong Lake, 50 kilometers away from the urban area, is the witness of the Han nationality's earliest development of Northeast China. History has left cultural monuments such as Hanzhou in Liao Dynasty, Xinzhou in Jin Dynasty and Yehe Tribe in Ming Dynasty. Daqingshan Village cultural sites, Yehe ancient city ruins, Liao and Jin dynasties
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