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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.

Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, one of the five autonomous prefectures in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is based in Yining City. It is the only autonomous prefecture in China that has jurisdiction over both prefectural and county administrative regions. it is located in the Yili River Valley in the north of Tianshan in the west of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, with temperate continental climate and alpine climate. It has jurisdiction over 2 prefecture-level administrative regions and 11 county-level administrative regions, with a total area of 268593 square kilometers. The total population in 2017 is 4.6171 million. Ili Prefecture is adjacent to the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan, and there are Yili normal University in the west. The fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th divisions of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps and a number of units directly under the central and autonomous regions, such as Xinjiang Mining and Metallurgical Bureau, Tianxi Forestry Bureau, Ashan Forestry Bureau, Xinjiang cigarette Factory, Ashi Gold Mine, etc. Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is Xinjiang fine wool sheep and Yili horse.
Travel Notes In Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture
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