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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.

Kunshan, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is hosted by Suzhou City. It has been more than 2200 years since Zilou County in the Qin Dynasty. Kunshan is the birthplace of Kunqu Opera, the ancestor of a hundred operas. Kunshan culture belongs to Wu-Yue culture, and the people of Kunshan belong to the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In September 2010, Kunshan, Vienna, Singapore and other five cities won the UN Habitat Award of the year. In January 2016, Kunshan was named the first batch of "National Ecological Garden cities" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In 2018, Kunshan achieved a GDP of 383.206 billion yuan. In 2019, Kunshan was named one of the top 100 counties and cities with comprehensive strength in 2019, one of the top 100 green development counties in 2019, and one of the top 100 new urbanization quality counties and cities in 2019. The second batch of national agricultural products
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