• Houston
  • Nanjing County

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.

Nanjing (ancient Zhangzhou capital, Nanjing County) was called Lanshui County in ancient times. It bought the county in the second year of Yuan Dynasty (1322). Located in the northwest of Zhangzhou City, with an area of 1962 square kilometers and a population of 360000, it has jurisdiction over 11 towns and 1 state-level high-tech industrial park, including 183administrative villages and 18 community neighborhood committees. Nanjing is one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese and one of the important ancestral places of Taiwan compatriots in Zhangzhou, with more than 30,000 overseas Chinese and more than 1 million Taiwan compatriots from Nanjing. Vincent Siew, Annette Lu and other Taiwan celebrities are all in Nanjing. "Top Ten" counties (cities) for county economic development in Fujian Province in 2019.
Travel Guides In Nanjing County
Travel Sights In Nanjing County
Travel Notes In Nanjing County
Travel Asks In Nanjing County
Travel Asks In Nanjing County