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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.

Pinghu is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, with geographical coordinates between 30 °35 °north latitude and 121 °16 'east longitude. The land area is 537 square kilometers, the sea area is 1086 square kilometers, the coastline is 27 kilometers long, and the cultivated land area is 470000 mu. In 2015, the resident population was 683800. Pinghu belongs to the outer margin of Jiangnan ancient land Hangzhou Bay sag is an alluvial plain. The territory is flat, with an average elevation of 2.8 meters, with a total of 4.89 square kilometers of 20 low hills and 11 islands and reefs along the southeast coast, and a large plain. Since 2019, it has been selected into the top 100 counties and cities with comprehensive strength in 2019. Selected into the top 100 counties and cities of new urbanization quality in 2019 and the whole country in 2019.
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