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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.

Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County (Aksai County for short) belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and is located at the confluence of Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces (regions). It is the only ethnic minority autonomous county with Kazak as the main body in Gansu Province. it is also one of the three Kazak autonomous counties in the people's Republic of China. Aksai County has a total area of 31000 square kilometers, with an average elevation of 3200 meters, and has jurisdiction over 2 townships and 1 town. Aksai County is home to 11 ethnic groups, including Kazakh, Han, Hui, Uygur, Salar and Tibetan, with a total population of more than 10600 (2014), of which more than 3700 are Kazakh (2014), accounting for 34.8% of the total population. The available grassland area of the county is 14.8 million mu, and the normal annual livestock carrying capacity is 189000 sheep units. Major rivers in Aksai County
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