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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.

Yongren County is the county under the jurisdiction of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. It is the mountainous county with the largest number of Yi people in Chuxiong Prefecture. It is located in the north-central part of Yunnan and the fortress of Yunnan. It is the north gate of Yunnan for economic development in Sichuan and Yunnan. Yongren County has a total area of 2189 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 3 towns. At the end of 2012, there were 110800 permanent residents in Yongren County, with a birth rate of 11.43 ‰, a mortality rate of 7.23 ‰ and a natural growth rate of 4.20 ‰. On February 2, 2019, it was rated as a county-level national advanced unit of traditional Chinese medicine by the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Yongren County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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