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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.

Pingdingshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, alias Eagle City, is located in Central China. Pingdingshan is an important energy and heavy industry base in the Central Plains Economic Zone, and it is also the central city of central Henan; it is high in the west and low in the east, with a trapezoidal distribution, and is located at the edge of warm temperate zone and northern subtropical climate; it now has jurisdiction over 2 cities, 4 counties and 4 districts with an area of 7882 square kilometers and a resident population of 5.2077 million in 2018. Pingdingshan is not only a resource-based industrial city, but also an excellent tourist city, a national garden city, a national forest city, a national sanitary city and a provincial civilized city. It is also the hometown of Chinese Quyi City, Chinese calligraphy City, the hometown of Chinese Guanyin Culture, the hometown of Chinese Ruyao Ceramic Art and the base of Tang Jun in China. There are 169 reservoirs in Pingdingshan, and the middle route of the South-to-North Water transfer Project passes through the city.
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