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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.

Xuzhou District, which belongs to Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southern margin of Sichuan Basin, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the lower reaches of Jinsha River and Minjiang River, and the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces; the topography is long from north to south, narrow from east to west, high in the southwest and low in the northeast, with the residual veins of the big and small Liangshan mountains in the west, the north slope of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south and the hilly area on the Chinese side of the basin in the northeast. The total area is 2570 square kilometers. Xuzhou, also known as Qiandao, has a long history of more than 2000 years since the city was founded six years after the height of the Western Han Dynasty. Historical and cultural celebrities such as Zhao Yiman, an anti-Japanese national heroine (formerly from Yibin County), Liu Hua, leader of the modern labor movement, Lu Deming, commander of the Autumn harvest uprising (formerly from Yibin County), Zheng Youzhi, the agricultural king of southern Sichuan, and Luo Zhe-wen, an ancient architect, emerged. In 2018, Xuzhou District has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 19 towns and 3 townships, with resident population.
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