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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.

Malkang City (formerly Malkang County) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. it is also the capital of the state. It means "place of vigorous fire" in Tibetan and extends to "place of prosperity and development". Malkang is based on the original Jiarong 18 chieftain Zhuokeji, Songgang, Dangba, Shuomo four chieftain territories as the prototype, also known as the "four soil areas." As of 2016, it covers an area of 6633 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 10 townships, with a total household registration population of 56166 in 2012. In 2014, the regional GDP reached 2.00253 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3% over 2013. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 215.02 million yuan, up 5.2%; the added value of the secondary industry was 311.65 million yuan, up 0.6%; and the added value of the tertiary industry was 1.
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