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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.

Suide County, located in the north of Shaanxi Province, southeast of Yulin City, is located in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. Suide County has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 12 towns and 661 administrative villages, with a total population of 359500 (2016). Suide has a long history and a collection of humanities, formerly known as "Shangjun Guyi". It is known as "famous state in the world", "famous state in Qin and Han Dynasty" and "dry wharf" in northern Shaanxi. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Suide County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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