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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.

Tongxin County is located in the central and southern part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, under the jurisdiction of Wuzhong City. It is bordered by Yanchi County in the east and Huanxian County in Qingyang City, Gansu Province in the east, Yuanzhou District in Guyuan City in the south, Shapotou District, Zhongning County and Haiyuan County in Zhongwei City in the west, and Hongsibao District in Wuzhong City in the north. It is located on the Loess Plateau in the south of Ordos platform and is high in the south and low in the north. There are mainly five types of landforms, such as mountains, loess hills, river valleys and desert lands, with complex topography and crisscross distribution of mountains and rivers. There are Luoshan, Miboshan, Madashan, Laoye Mountain, Qinglong Mountain, Yaoshan and so on, all of which belong to Liupanshan system. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list.
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