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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.

Xintai, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, is hosted by Taian City and is located in the middle of Shandong Province. It is a pilot county for building a modern big city in Shandong Province. It is located in the middle of Taiyi Mountains and belongs to the warm temperate continental monsoon climate zone. It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 17 towns and 1 township, with a total area of 1946 square kilometers and a registered household population of 1.2742 million in 2017. Xintai had human existence in the Paleolithic Age. The unearthed teeth of Homo sapiens in Wuzhutai proved that it was once one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. There are three state-owned ecological public welfare forest farms in Lianhua Mountain, Taiping Mountain and Tumen. Lianhuashan is a world geological park, a national 4A scenic spot and a national forest park. The road traffic in the territory is well developed, with two expressways of Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and Taixin Expressway and Cilai, East (East Capital) Ping (Pingyi) and Wali (Jinzhong).
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