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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.

Keping County, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, Keping was called Keping by the Han nationality and Ke'erping in Uygur language. It was not until 1903 when Fenfangxian was established as Keping, and it has been used ever since. Keping, which is said to mean "flood" or "Diwo Zi". Keping County is located in southern Xinjiang, the westernmost end of Aksu area, the southern foot of Altag Mountains, a branch of Tianshan Mountains, and the northern margin of Tarim Basin. The total area of the county is 12047 square kilometers, of which the mountain area is 6393 square kilometers, accounting for 53% of the total area of the county. The county has jurisdiction over one town and four townships, with a total population of 49000 in 2013. In 2012, the GDP of Keping County reached 672 million yuan, an increase of 21.8% over the same period in 2011.
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