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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.

Qinshui County, which belongs to Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, is located in the southeast of Shanxi Province, northeast of Zhongtiao Mountain and the middle reaches of Qinhe River. The junction of Taihang, Taiyue and Zhongtiao mountain systems. The county is surrounded by mountains, east to Laomaling, and Yueshen Mountain to Gaoping City and Zezhou County; to the west to Dongwuling and Yicheng County; to the south to Xianweng Mountain and Shunwangping to Yangcheng and Yuanqu County; to the north to Xiangshanling, Guandiling and Yujun Mountain adjacent to Fushan, Anze and Changzi County. It is between 35 °24 degrees north latitude and 36 °04 degrees north longitude and 115 °55 degrees east longitude, with a total area of 2676.6 square kilometers. Qinshui has a long history. Since ancient times, there have been legends of Nu Kui mending the sky and Shun ploughing through the mountains. The Xiachuan site excavated in the 1970s proves that as early as 23000 to 16000 years ago, the people of Qinshui
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