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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.

Shule County is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, northwest of Kashi region, bordering Jiashi and Yuepu Lake County in the east, Yingjisha County in the south, Aktao County in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and Shufu County in the northwest, facing Kashi City and Shufu County in the north across the Kizil River. Shule County has a total area of 2262.75 square kilometers. Shule County has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 12 townships. Shule Town has Uygur, Han, Hui, Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tajik, Mongolian and other ethnic groups. The county people's government is stationed in Shule town. In 2008, Shule County achieved a GDP of 2.51 billion yuan. There are Zhang Qian Park, Zhang Qian Memorial Hall, Shule History Museum, Science, Technology and Culture Center, Nurlan Garden, Baiguo Ecological Park, Yafuquan Desert Populus euphratica in Shule County.
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