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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.

Foping County is located at the southern foot of Qinling Mountains, the north-south boundary of China's physical geography, in the northeast of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, Ningshan County and Shiquan County, Ankang City in the east, Zhouzhi County in Xi'an City and Taibai County in Baoji City in the north, and Lianyang County in the southwest. 150 kilometers away from Hanzhong and 200 kilometers from Xi'an. In ancient times, there are Luo Locke and Meridian Road, but now there are 108 National Highway and Xihan Expressway crossing the county. The total area is 1279 square kilometers. Foping is "the hometown of giant pandas" and "the hometown of Chinese dogwood". On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. On September 29, 2018, the county has withdrawn from the poverty-stricken county sequence. In March 2019, it was on the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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