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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.

Jiangcheng District, located in the south of Yangjiang City, is one of the municipal districts of Yangjiang City, the resident of the municipal party committee and municipal government, and the political, economic, cultural, transportation and information center of Yangjiang City. It borders Yangxi County in the west, the eastern district of Yangyang in the east, Yangchun City in the north, the South China Sea in the south, the coastal low mountains and hills in the coastal hilly area, and faces the sea along the river. Belongs to the south subtropical marine climate, the average annual temperature is 22.5℃, the average annual precipitation is 2300 mm, the whole year is basically frost-free. The forest area is 15200 hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 19.2%. Jiangcheng is a dependency of Gaoliang County in ancient times. Since Wu Sunquan bought Gaoliang County in the first year of Wei and Huang Dynasty (AD 220) (except for the 58 years of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty), it has been administered by counties, states and counties. In the second year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty (AD 606), Yangjiang County was set up to transform the old Tucheng and the new brick and wood city after reconstruction.
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