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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.

Dachuan District, under the jurisdiction of Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the south of the main urban area of Dazhou City, and is located in the connecting zone of parallel ridges and valleys in the east of Sichuan Basin, hilly areas in the middle of the basin and low mountain areas around the basin. The general trend of topography is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, belonging to the mid-subtropical monsoon humid climate type; it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 29 towns and 25 townships, with a total area of 2245 square kilometers, with a total population of 1.118 million at the end of 2017. Dachuan District has a long history and profound cultural heritage. There are a large number of historical celebrities, such as Chun Shenjun, one of the four princes of the warring States, Sima Yuan Zhen of Tongzhou in the Tang Dynasty, Wei Chengfang of the Ministry of officials in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Zhen, an outstanding thinker in the Qing Dynasty, and so on. Unique location and convenient transportation. Dachuan, as the joint of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei and Shaanxi, is located in the radiation center of the four major cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an and Wuhan.
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