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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.

Hancheng is known as "Longmen", "Xia Yang" and "Shaoliang" in ancient times. Weinan City in Shaanxi Province is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the hometown of Shi Sheng Tai Shi Company Ma Qian. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou sealed here, saying that South Korea, at the turn of the Spring and Autumn and warring States period, and King Zhou Ping, the son of Qin Zhong, was called Liang. During the warring States period, Qin established Xiayang County. Sui Kai Huang 18 years (598) home Hancheng County. It was changed to Hancheng City in January 1984 and was listed as an open city in Shaanxi Province in 1985. In 2006, it became the only city in Shaanxi Province that was awarded "China's Outstanding Tourism City" as a county-level city. In 2016, it was selected as the first batch of national global tourism demonstration zones. In 2017, it was selected as a national high-quality city demonstration city, the first batch of national food safety demonstration cities and national major municipal engineering leaders.
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