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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.

Jiaxing, also known as "Hecheng", is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, the Yangtze River Delta Urban agglomeration, important cities in the Shanghai Metropolitan area, the core city in the Dawan area of Zhejiang Province, the vice central city of Hangzhou Metropolitan area and the central city of Shanghai-Jiahang G60 Science and Technology creation Corridor. located in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, the hinterland of the Hangjiahu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta. Jiaxing is located at the river-lake sea rendezvous, strangling the throat of the south corridor of Taihu Lake, less than 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo and other cities. The land area is 4275.05 square kilometers (including the water area of the Qiantang River, the dividing line between the river and sea of the Qiantang River is connected by Haiyan Qipu-Yuyaoxi three gates). Jiaxing system began in the Qin Dynasty, has more than 2000 years of human history, has been a prosperous and rich place since ancient times, known as the "land of fish and rice", "silk"
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