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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.

Shidian County, Xiazhong County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, is located in the western border of Yunnan Province, the east bank of Nujiang River, the south of Baoshan City, between 98 °54 miles east longitude and 25 °00 degrees north latitude, between Kuke River and Changning County in the east, Mengpolo as the boundary and Lincang City in the south, across the Nujiang River and Longling County in the west, and Longyang District in the north. The county seat is 60 kilometers away from Baoshan Municipal Government and 654 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital. By the end of 2015, Shidian County has a total population of 344418, with a total area of 2009 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 8 townships, with the county government stationed in Dianyang Town. Shidian County belongs to the low-latitude mountain monsoon climate dominated by the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 17.6 ℃. The topography of the territory belongs to the mountain canyon area on the tail wing of Nushan Mountain, which is generally high in the north and low in the south.
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