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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.

Nima County is a county under the jurisdiction of Naqu City, Tibet Autonomous region, located in the north of the Tibet Autonomous region and northwest of Naqu City, bordering Xigaze City in the south, Shuanghu County and Shenza County in the east, and Gaize County in the west. The average elevation is more than 5000 meters. It belongs to the semi-arid monsoon climate in the subcold zone of the plateau and the arid climate in the cold zone of the plateau. The air is thin, windy and snowy, with an average annual temperature of-4 ℃ and annual precipitation of 150mm. With a total area of 72499.41 square kilometers and a population of 31161 (at the end of 2014), it has jurisdiction over 1 town, 13 townships and 77 administrative villages. The county government is stationed in Nima town. Nima means "sun" in Tibetan. Nima County, whose economy is mainly animal husbandry, is a pure animal husbandry county. In 2014, the county's GDP was 482.86 million yuan.
Travel Notes In Nyima County
Across Qiangtang, Bangor and Nima ——2020 Autumn Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai Self-driving Travel Notes (9)
The Qiangtang Plateau is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest inland area of ​​the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (in the Qiangtang Basi