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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.

Linxia County, which belongs to Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, is located in the central part of Gansu Province, southwest of Linxia Prefecture, bordering Linxia City, Dongxiang County and Hezheng County in the east, Gannan Cooperative City and Xiahe County in the south, Xunhua County in Qinghai Province in the west, Jishishan County in the northwest, and Yongjing County in the north across the river. The county is 53.1km wide from east to west and 59.85km from north to south, with a total area of 1212.4 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 19 townships and 2 ethnic townships, with a total of 219 administrative villages, 2101 villagers' groups, 2 neighborhood committees and 11 resident groups. The total population of the county is 386900 (2011), including Han nationality, Hui nationality, Dongxiang nationality,
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