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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.

Baoji, known as Chen Cang and Yongcheng in ancient times, is known as "the hometown of Emperor Yan and the hometown of bronzes". It is an important node city of Guanzhong Plain Urban agglomeration and the deputy central city of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. Located in the west of Guanzhong Plain, it has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 9 counties, with a total area of 18100 square kilometers. At the end of 2018, the resident population was 3.771 million. Baoji has a long history and is the seat of Baoxue (Baoji School). It has a history of more than 2700 years. It has unearthed the four great national treasures of the late Qing Dynasty, stone drums, he Zun and other cultural relics, as well as Chinese crafts such as Xifu Social Fire, Fengxiang wooden New year paintings, clay sculptures and so on. Baoji is a national civilized city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national forest city and a national ecological garden city. It has Famen Temple, Taibai Mountain National Forest Park, Guanshan grassland and Chinese Stone Drum Garden (Baoji).
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