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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.

Gutian County (ancient Gutian County, Fuzhou Capital), is now under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, Fujian Province, located in the northeast of Fujian Province, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, Gutian Creek runs through the whole territory. The county was founded in the 29 year of Tang Kaiyuan (741). It is known as "the hometown of hydropower", "the hometown of overseas Chinese", "the hometown of Chinese edible fungi", "the hometown of sports" and "the hometown of culture". Gutian is the capital of edible fungi in China; the per capita share of water resources ranks first in China; Gutianxi Hydropower Station is the first underground power station in China; Gutian has been rated as China's advanced sports county and Chinese cultural model county. In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. In 2018, the regional GDP reached 16.75044 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%, of which the added value of the primary industry was 4.39291 billion yuan.
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