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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.

Haifeng County, which belongs to Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province. Haifeng is derived from "Nanhai Wufeng" and is known as "the land of fish and rice". It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong and one of the 13 red bases in the country. Xianhe six years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 331) established a county. In the ninth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1731), Shifan, Fang and Jikang were all set up in Lufeng County. Shanwei City was established in March 1988, and Haifeng designated seven coastal towns as urban areas. The county has jurisdiction over 16 townships, one economic development zone and three agricultural and forestry farms, with a total population of more than 800,000. Haifeng is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are 470000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. 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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