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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.

Heshan City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is a new industrial and mining city hosted by Laibin City, which is located in the west, southeast and west of Laibin City and connected with Xingbin District. Heshan has convenient transportation, National Highway 322 Nanliu Secondary Highway runs through the north and south of the city, more than 50 kilometers east of Nanliu Expressway; the railway is connected with the Hunan-Guangxi railway trunk line; shipping can reach Guigang, Wuzhou, Guangzhou and Hong Kong and Macao. Heshan City was awarded the title of "Top Ten counties (cities) in Guangxi Economic Development" in 2003 and 2005, and entered the list of "100 counties and cities with the fastest improvement in the basic competitiveness of China's county economy" in 2004. In March 2009, Heshan was listed as one of the second batch of 32 resource-exhausted cities by the State Council. After the transformation, it has received strong support from government funds and projects at all levels.
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