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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.

Shangnan-the cover of the Great Qinling Mountains, also known as "Lucheng", has a long history, picturesque, exquisite and handsome, beautiful ecology, rich heritage, is a natural oxygen bar in China, the southeast gate of Shaanxi, the only 5A scenic spot in southern Shaanxi-Jinsi Grand Canyon is located here. Shangnan, the famous hometown of Chinese tea and famous tea in China, the best cultural and eco-tourism county in China, the natural oxygen bar in China, the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art, the most beautiful county in China, and the famous eco-tourism county in the western region, it is known as the "Pearl of Southern Shaanxi" and "Qinling cover". Its national geographical indication product "Shangnan Tea" and rich cultural and ecological tourism have made it increasingly prosperous, and its county seat is known as "the most beautiful county seat in the Qinling Mountains". Shangnan, located at the southern foot of the eastern part of Qinling Mountains and on the north slope of Dabashan Mountain, belongs to the Han Dynasty in the Yangtze River Basin.
Travel Notes In Shangnan County