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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.

Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, located in the middle of Guizhou Province, belonging to Anshun City, is located in the slope zone inclined to the hills of Guangxi on the south side of the ridge slope in the eastern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The northeast and northwest are adjacent to Zhenning Autonomous County and Liuzhi Special Zone, while the southwest is bounded by Beipanjiang and Qinglong, Xingren and Zhenfeng counties. The total area is 1468 square kilometers, and the total population of the county is 323092 (2013), of which 197571 are ethnic minorities. There are 22 ethnic groups living in Buyi, Miao, Han, Gelo, Yi and so on. The county people's government is stationed in Guansuo town. In Guanling County, there is the highest bridge in China, the Baling River Bridge, the national agricultural tourism demonstration site Mucheng River rural tourism area, and the Huajiang Grand Canyon Scenic spot known as the fissure of the earth. In 2013, students were born in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County.
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