Wichita (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː/ WITCH-ih-taw) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname "Cowtown". Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for around one year before going to Dodge City.
Xingtai, known as Xingzhou and Shunde in ancient times, is the prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, the northern gateway city of the Central Plains urban agglomeration and the important node city of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. By the end of 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 19 counties (cities and districts), with a total area of 12500 square kilometers, a resident population of 7.3744 million, and a regional GDP of 215.076 billion yuan. Xingtai is located in the south of Hebei Province, adjacent to Taihang Mountain and Shanxi Province in the west, the Grand Canal and Shandong Province in the east, Shijiazhuang and Hengshui in the north and Handan in the south. The territory of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Beijing-Kowloon High-speed Railway,.