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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.

Tuquan County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Xingan in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, which is renamed by Liquan County. Located in the southwest of Xingan, Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, it is located in the transitional zone between Songnen Plain and Horqin grassland in Daxing'an Mountains, and borders Taonan City, Jilin Province in the east. Tuquan County has a total area of 4889.5 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 6 townships. The total population is 303000, of which the agricultural population is 216000, living in 14 ethnic groups such as Han, Mongolia and Manchuria, and the population of ethnic minorities is 92500, accounting for 30.5% of the total population of the county. It is the autonomous region's key support to the old revolutionary base areas, the national poverty-stricken areas and the national key counties in poverty alleviation and development. In 2013, the GDP of Tuquan County was 6.06 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2% over the same period in 2012.
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