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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.

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Qinghai Province, is located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and on the western edge of the Loess Plateau. It has a total area of 34389.89 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over three counties and one autonomous county. In 2017, it has a resident population of 283000. There are 36 sites in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture which have been announced by the people's Government of Qinghai Province. Among them, the national cultural relics protection units are Xihai County Zhilongyi City in the Western Han Dynasty; there are 11 cultural relics protection units at the provincial level; more than 40 tombs have been cleared and more than 700 cultural relics have been unearthed. This is also the place where Mr. Wang Luobin collected the style when he wrote the famous song "in that distant place". In 2017, the gross domestic product of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was 8.291 billion yuan, down 20.3% from the previous year at comparable prices.
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