• Houston
  • Qitai

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.

Qitai County is located in the northeast of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the southeast edge of Junggar Basin, 195 kilometers west of Urumqi City, is the border county of Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, and has a first-class national port-Wulatai Port, which is open to Mongolia. Qitai County, with a total area of 19300 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 7 towns and 8 townships, with Qitai central regiment farm and Beitashan pasture. The total population of the county is 240500 (2013), with ethnic minorities accounting for 25% of the total population. There is the only Tatar township in China. Qitai County has more than 20 kinds of mineral resources, such as coal, granite, iron, gold, silver, copper, mirabilite, graphite, limestone, bentonite, perlite and so on. In 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Qitai County was 8.524 billion yuan, an increase of 1% over the same period in 2011.
Travel Sights In Qitai
Travel Notes In Qitai