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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.

Yunfu City is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, south of the middle reaches of the Xijiang River, adjacent to the Pearl River Delta, bordering Zhaoqing, Foshan, Jiangmen, Yangjiang, Maoming and Wuzhou, Guangxi. The urban area is more than 140 kilometers away from the provincial capital Guangzhou and 177 nautical miles away from Hong Kong by waterway. In April 1994, a prefecture-level city was established, under the jurisdiction of Yuncheng District, Yunan District, Xinxing County and Yunan County, in charge of Luoding City. Yunfu is one of the cities in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration and an important node city in the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt. Yunfu is rich in mineral resources. Yunfu is one of the important polymetallic mineralization concentration areas in China, in which the reserves and grade of pyrite rank first in the world and are known as the "sulfur capital". It is the largest production base of sulfur chemical industry in China and the largest production base of stainless steel tableware in Guangdong Province. Stone processing has a long history and is known as the "stone capital". Yunfu is the center of China's stone base.
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