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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.

Zhenyuan County belongs to Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, 190 kilometers away from Kaili City, the capital of Guizhou Province, located in the Wuling Mountain area in the east of Guizhou Province, is a slope zone of transition from Guizhou Plateau to Xiangxi hills, Xinhuang, Hunan, bordering Sansui and Jianhe to the south, Shiqian, Tongren City to the north, is the east gate of Guizhou Province, known as "the lock key of Yunnan and Chu, the gateway to eastern Guizhou". It belongs to the humid climate zone of the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 16.6 ℃, a frost-free period of 292 days, an annual precipitation of 1057 mm, and annual sunshine hours of 1200 hours. Zhenyuan County has a total area of 1878 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 12 townships (towns), 110 administrative villages, 5 communities and 4 neighborhood committees, with a total population of 259000, of which 99000 are from 22 ethnic minorities, including Miao, Dong and Tujia, accounting for the total.
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