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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.

Qujing is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the east of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces and regions, known as "the key of Yunnan and Guizhou" and "Yunnan throat". It is 120km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 28900 square kilometers, accounting for 13.63% of the area of Yunnan Province. As of April 2018, Qujing City has jurisdiction over 1 city, 3 districts and 5 counties. At the end of 2016, the total registered population of the city was 6.5297 million. Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains of the transitional zone from the eastern Yunnan plateau to the western Guizhou plateau in the middle of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau. The west is embedded with the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau, the eastern part is gradually inclined to the Guizhou Plateau, and the central part is a watershed zone between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. There are eight unique languages of Yi, Buyi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.
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