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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.

Tianmen, known as Jingling in ancient times, is a municipality of Hubei Province, an important member of Wuhan City Circle and the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the main node cities in the Han River Basin, located in the middle of Hubei Province and the north of Jianghan Plain, reaching Dahongshan in the north, Hanjiang River in the south and Wuhan in the east. In the fourth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1726), Tianmen Mountain was named "Tianmen". In 1994, the State Council approved Tianmen City to be directly under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province. In 2018, the city's resident population was 1.2723 million. Tianmen is an important birthplace of world tea culture, the hometown of Lu Yu, the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in the interior, and the hometown of steamed vegetables in China. It is a national sanitary city and a national garden city. It ranks among the top 100 county economies in the country and has been rated as one of the top 100 county economies for 12 consecutive years.
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