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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.

Longzhou County, a county under the jurisdiction of Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is located in the southwest of Guangxi, 200km away from Nanning, Jiangzhou District of Chongzuo City to the east, Ningming County and Pingxiang City to the south, Daxin County to the northeast, and Vietnam to the northwest. it is rich in heat, abundant rainfall and sufficient sunshine, with a total area of 2317.8 square kilometers, five towns and seven townships, with a total population of 272287 in 2017. Longzhou, an important border defense town, is a famous historical and cultural city of border trade with many years of history, with Shuikouguan in the west and Pinggeguan in the southwest. In the fifteenth year of Guang Xu (1889), Longzhou was established as a land trade port, which was the earliest trade port opened to the outside world in Guangxi. Longzhou is the revolutionary resort of Zuojiang led by Communist Party of China. On February 1, 1930, in Li Mingrui and Yu Zuoyu
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