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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.

Qu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Dazhou City, and is connected with Guang'an, Nanchong and Bazhong landscapes. The geographical coordinates are between 106 °38 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 15 miles east, and 31 degrees 16 degrees north latitude. Quxian is located in the transitional zone between the parallel ridges and valleys in eastern Sichuan and the purple hilly region in central Sichuan, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 2013 square kilometers. As of 2018, qu County has jurisdiction over 60 townships, with a registered population of 1.3438 million and a resident population of 1.1161 million. Qu County had human activities as early as the Neolithic Age. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Shang people established the national capital city in Chengba Village, Tuxi Town. In the first year of King Zhou (314 BC), Dangqu County was set up, and qu County was named in the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376). It also built a county.
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