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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.

Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing Municipal District, Guangdong Province, located in the west of the middle of Guangdong Province, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Xijiang River, belongs to the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and is the political, economic and cultural center of Zhaoqing City. It is bordered by Xijiang River in the south, Beiling Mountain in the north, Dinghushan in the east and Xiaoxiang Town in Gaoyao City in the west. Between longitude 112 °23'E and latitude 34 °23'E and latitude 23 °2'N to 11'. Duanzhou, with a history of more than 2000 years, is a state-level historical and cultural city and a national scenic city, among which Xinghu Scenic spot is one of the first batch of "National Top Ten Civilization Scenic spots demonstration sites" announced by the State Council of the people's Republic of China.
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