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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.

Kaiping, a county-level city administered by Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, southwest of the Pearl River Delta, and in the middle of the hometown of overseas Chinese in Wuyi, connected with Xinhui, Heshan, Taishan, Enping and Xinxing. The city has a total area of 1659 square kilometers and a registered population of about 688300 (statistics in 2017). It has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 13 towns and 1 provincial industrial transfer industrial park, with a total of 269 villages (communities). Ming home Kaiping County, because the county governance in Kaipingtun got its name. Sanbu Town of Kaiping County is divided into Changsha, Xinchang and Dihai by the Tanjiang River, which is similar to the three towns of Wuhan, so it is known as "Little Wuhan". Kaiping is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China, overseas Chinese living in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there are about 750000 people, all distributed in 68 countries and regions. Kaiping is famous.
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