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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.

Zhuanglang County, which belongs to Pingliang City, Gansu Province, is located in the middle of Gansu Province, at the west foot of Liupan Mountain, Huating County in the east, Jingning County in the west, Longde County and Jingyuan County in the north, and Zhangjiachuan County and Qinan County in the south. It is 56.37km long from east to west and 46.60km wide from north to south, with a total area of 1553.14 square kilometers (2013). It has jurisdiction over 1 street, 7 towns and 11 townships. The population is 449570 (2013). There are many natural and cultural landscapes, such as Yunya Temple, national forest park, Yunya Grottoes, provincial cultural relics protection units, Zijingshan, Chenjiadong, Wu Wang Cemetery, Guanshan Tianchi Chaonaoli, and so on. Zhuanglang County is a national terraced model county, a national advanced collective for soil and water conservation, a national cultural model county, a national economic forest construction demonstration county, a national ecological construction demonstration county, and a national cultural model county.
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