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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.

Yanling County, which belongs to Xuchang City, Henan Province, is located in the middle of Henan Province, to the east of Qianli Funiu Mountains and to the south of the Yellow River. It is bordered by Changge City and Jian'an District in the west, Kaifeng City in the north, Zhoukou City in the east and Luohe City in the south. It now has jurisdiction over 12 towns and 386 administrative villages (communities) with a total population of 667000 people and a total area of 866 square kilometers (996000 mu of arable land). In recent years, Yanling County has adhered to the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensive", adhered to the concept of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, and made great efforts to build ecological mausoleum, prosperous mausoleum, civilized mausoleum and happy mausoleum. Solid steps have been made in the journey of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Yanling County is located in the core area of the Central Plains highway network, adjacent to Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone, north to the new.
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