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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.

Yanshan County belongs to Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, with a total area of 800 square kilometers, located in the southeast of Cangzhou City, facing the Bohai Sea to the east, Beijing and Tianjin to the north and Shandong to the south. It is the center of the "two provinces" (Hebei Province and Shandong Province) and "three cities" (Cangzhou, Dezhou and Binzhou). It is known as "Jilu Hub" and "Beijing-Tianjin Portal". It is 120 kilometers away from Tianjin, 220 kilometers from Beijing, 160 kilometers from Jinan, 50 kilometers away from Huanghua Port and 110 kilometers away from Tianjin Port. You can go to sea in half an hour and board the plane in one hour. Yanhuang Railway, New Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, 205 National Highway and other national trunk lines run through the county, and the three major railway lines of Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Beijing-Shanghai Railway (passenger dedicated line) and Shuohuang Railway pass by the major traffic arteries such as Shihuang Expressway and Tianjin-Shantou Expressway. The total area of the county is 800 square kilometers, with cultivated land.
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