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Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ (listen); HEW-stən) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle.

Comprising a land area of 640.4 square miles (1,659 km2), Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties, bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and The Woodlands.

The city of Houston was founded by land investors on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city is named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas's independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s, Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century.

Baiyin District belongs to Baiyin City, Gansu Province. Baiyin gets its name because of the mine and because of the enterprise area. Located in central Gansu, western Baiyin City, the middle upper reaches of the Yellow River, located in the northwest edge of the Longxi Loess Plateau, the general trend of topography is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an average elevation of 1946.5 meters. It borders Gaolan County, Lanzhou City in the west, the Yellow River in the south, Qingcheng Town in Yuzhong County and Pingbao Township in Jingyuan County, Liuchuan Township in Jingyuan County in the east, and Zhongquan Township in Jingtai County in the north. With a total area of 1372 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 3 towns and 2 townships. In 2017, the registered population of Baiyin District was 290381. In 2017, Baiyin District achieved a GDP of 19.957 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6 percent over the same period last year. In July 2019, it was selected as the pilot county (district) of the national intellectual property strong county project.
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