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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.

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", the provincial administrative district of the people's Republic of China, the capital of Taiyuan, is located in North China. Shanxi is bounded by 34 °34km north latitude and 114o 14km east longitude, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. The topography of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram oblique to the southwest, which is a typical mountain plateau covered by loess, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The internal ups and downs of the plateau, vertical and horizontal river valleys, landforms have mountains, hills, platforms, plains, mountain areas account for 80.1% of the total area. Shanxi Province straddles the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the river belongs to the self-produced outflow type. Shanxi Province is located in the inland of the middle latitudes and belongs to the temperate continent.
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