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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.

Dazhu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the east of Sichuan Province and the south of Dazhou City. It spans 106 °59 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 32 miles north latitude, 31 °00 degrees north latitude, Liangping District and Dianjiang County of Chongqing City in the east, Linshui County in the south, Guang'an District and qu County in the west, and Dachuan District in the north. It has been included in the Qinba Mountain Poverty Alleviation and Development Zone, the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone Chongqing Guangda Economic Development Zone, and the northeast Sichuan urban agglomeration. Dazhu County got its name from "more bamboo". Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty saw the first year (AD 700) to buy the county; known as "the hometown of Ramie in China", "the first County of Chinese Toona", "the Capital of mash in China", "the hometown of glutinous Rice in China", "the hometown of Green Bamboo in East Sichuan"; there is Wufengshan National Forest Park, and there are ancient official post roads that started in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flourished in the three Kingdoms.
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