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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.

Shaanxi, referred to as "Shaanxi" or "Qin", the provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China, the provincial capital Xi'an, is located in the hinterland of China, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Shanxi and Henan to the east, Ningxia and Gansu to the west, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, between longitude 105 °29 and latitude 31 °42, with a total area of 205600 square kilometers. China's longitude and latitude reference point, geodetic origin, and Beijing time National time Service Center are located in the province. The topography of Shaanxi Province is high in the north and low in the middle, and is composed of plateaus, mountains, plains and basins, among which the Loess Plateau accounts for 40% of the province's land area, straddling the two major river systems of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and across three climatic belts. The Great Wall in northern Shaanxi belongs to the mid-temperate monsoon climate, Guanzhong and
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