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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.

Balikun, which means "Tiger Lake" in Turkic language, gets its name from Balikun Lake; it is the homonym of "Balkule" in Mongolian, meaning "tiger's front paws", which is named after the dangerous terrain; and it is the ancient Yue language. Balikun Kazakh Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Hami City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. Balikun Kazakh Autonomous County, established on September 30, 1954, is located in northeastern Xinjiang, bordering Yiwu County to the east, Yizhou District to the south, Kazakh Autonomous County to the west, Mongolia to the north, and one of the three Kazakh autonomous counties in the country. it is also a key county for poverty alleviation and development in Xinjiang. it is a typical border county, Gaohan county and disaster-prone county in Xinjiang. it was identified as five categories of areas by China in 2006. The border line between China and Mongolia is 309 kilometers long, and there are seasonally open ports in China.
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