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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.

Muchuan County, under the jurisdiction of Leshan City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Sichuan Basin, the triangle between Minjiang River, Dadu River and Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is bordered by Yibin in the east, Pingshan County in the south, Shawan District and Jianwei County in the north, Ebian County in the west and Mabian County in the southwest. It covers an area of 1408 square kilometers with a population of 260000. The territory has fresh air, beautiful scenery, rich products and simple folk customs, with a forest coverage rate of 77.34%, known as "natural oxygen bar" and "green pearl". It is the pilot county of the national ecological civilization demonstration project, the national ecological demonstration area, the national key ecological functional area, the hometown of bamboo in China, the national greening model county, the national forestry science and technology demonstration county, and the best green eco-tourism county in China. On July 31, 2018, the Sichuan Provincial Government approved Muchuan County to withdraw from poverty.
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