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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.

Minle County, which belongs to Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is located at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, the middle of Hexi Corridor, the southeast of Zhangye City, bordering Shandan and Yongchang counties in the east, Qilian County and Menyuan County in Qinghai Province in the south, Yugu Autonomous County in Sunan in the southwest, and Gansu District in Zhangye City in the west and northwest. The geographical coordinates are between 100 °22 °59 "~ 101 °13 °9" east longitude and 37 °56'19 "~ 38 °48" 17 "north latitude. It is 73.8km wide from east to west and 95.4km long from north to south, with a total area of 3678 square kilometers (2013). With a population of 230800 (2013), Minle County achieved a GDP of 1.658 billion yuan in 2007. Minle County has Haichao Lake Ecological Resort, Bandukou Ecological Leisure Tourism area and Nuniu.
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