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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.

Panan County, which belongs to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province (the geographical center of Zhejiang, known as "the Heart of Zhejiang"), bordering Dongyang, Xinchang, Xianju, Tiantai and other cities and counties. Within 2 hours from Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, it belongs to the economic zone of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic zone of central Zhejiang urban agglomeration. With a total area of 1196 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships with a population of 209000. Panan County was established in 1939 in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1958, the whole territory was merged into Dongyang County. In 1983, Panan County was restored. Panan is the largest Confucius settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, with two "national key cultural relic protection units" of Yushan ancient tea farm and beech stream Kong family temple and the only national medicinal plant national nature reserve-Dapanshan Nature Reserve, National 4A
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