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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.

Hongyuan County is a county under the jurisdiction of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. In 1960, Premier Zhou Enlai named Hongyuan County, meaning the prairie traveled by the Red Army on the long March. In 2017, Hongyuan County achieved a GDP of 1.27155 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3% over the same period last year. Of this total, the added value of the primary industry was 405.19 million yuan, up 4.1 percent over the same period last year; the added value of the secondary industry was 368.74 million yuan, up 6.7 percent over the same period last year; and the added value of the tertiary industry was 497.62 million yuan, up 2.8 percent over the same period last year. Hongyuan County has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 7 townships, covering an area of 8439.94 square kilometers, with a total registered population of 48878 (at the end of 2017). On September 25, 2018, Hongyuan County won the honor of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" by the Ministry of Commerce.
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