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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.

Liuba County is located in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, north of Hanzhong City. Located in the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, the upper reaches of the Han River, "face Ba Shu and back Qinchuan", is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, no heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The geological and geomorphological features are unique, with a long history, rich resources and convenient transportation, which has been known as the "throat of the Qin and Han dynasties". It is 46.4 km long from east to west and 67.2 km wide from north to south. The county seat is 367km away from Xi'an and 85 km away from Hanzhong, with 2.725 million mu of forestry land and 89000 mu of agricultural land, which is one of the forestry counties in Shaanxi Province. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Liuba County to withdraw from the poverty-stricken county sequence.
Travel Notes In Liuba County