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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.

Raoping County is under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. Located in the east of Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, east of Fujian Province, south of Nanhai, jurisdiction over 21 towns, a forest farm, a total of 394 village (neighborhood) committees. It covers an area of 2227 square kilometers, of which the land area is 1694 square kilometers, the sea area is 533 square kilometers, and the island coastline is 136km long. At the end of 2016, there were 1.071 million registered residents and 872000 permanent residents. Raoping County north Qianfeng Tingxiu, the central hills undulating, the southern plain fertile fields, coastal islands listed, many harbors. The whole territory belongs to the marine subtropical monsoon climate zone. The natural ecological environment is rich and diverse, with all kinds of ecological resources such as mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, high mountains, deep valleys, basins, plains, coasts and beaches, known as "Lingnan good resort, Yinghai ancient Penglai".
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