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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.

Shangsi County, which belongs to Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is located at the northern foot of Shiwandashan in the south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, between longitude 107 °33 °east and latitude 21 °44 °22 °22 'north. It is bordered by Qinzhou City in the east, Fangcheng Autonomous County in the south, Ningming County in the west, Fusui County in the north and Yongning County in the northeast. The county is about 68.1km long from east to west and 49.5km wide from north to south, with a total area of 2816 square kilometers, accounting for 1.2 per cent of the total area of the autonomous region. The county seat is only 100 kilometers away from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, 116 kilometers away from Fangchenggang, the largest seaport in Guangxi, and 130 kilometers away from Dongxing City, an important border town in China. 2011 Tourism Ecology Specialty of China Ecological Society
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