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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.

Zhecheng is a county under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, located in the east and southwest of Shangqiu City, the middle and lower reaches of Huiji River, connected with Suiyang District in the northeast, Ningling County and Sui County in the north, Luyi County in Zhoukou City in the south, and Taikang County in Zhoukou City in the west. As of May 2019, Zhecheng County has a total area of 1048 square kilometers, 2 offices, 10 towns and 10 townships, with a total population of 1.044 million. In 2018, the county's GDP reached 22.6 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. More than 6,000 years ago, Emperor Yandi Zhu Xiangshi was founded and buried in Zhecheng; in the Xia Dynasty, Zhecheng was called "Zhuye"; in the Shang Dynasty, it was called "Autumn Land"; in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was one of the founding capitals of the "Sanke"; most of it belonged to the State of Chu in the warring States period. The Qin Dynasty began to buy counties, with cities with Zhe gully circulation and cross-strait
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