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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.

Qilin District, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is the seat of Qujing Municipal Government. It is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, in the middle of the eastern Yunnan Plateau, in the upper reaches of Nanpanjiang River, between 103 °29 degrees east longitude and 104 °14 degrees east longitude and 26 °06 degrees north latitude. It is 137km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 1552.84 square kilometers. In 2017, Qilin District has a registered population of 749900, with a GDP of 63.3 billion yuan, and has jurisdiction over 13 streets and 3 towns. The terrain is high from east to west and low from north to south, with mountains, river valleys and hills interlaced with each other. The urban area is 1875 meters above sea level. Guiyang-Kunming Railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 326 are distributed radially in the territory. Qilin District has been appraised as the national sustainable development experimental area, the national ecological demonstration area and the national science popularization demonstration area.
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