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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.

Sihong County, under the jurisdiction of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, Hongze Lake to the east and Anhui to the west, located in the cross-radiation area of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone and the Huaihe River eco-economic belt, with an administrative area of 2731 square kilometers and a population of 1.1 million. It is the hometown of famous wine, crab and eco-tourism in China. Sihong is the wine capital of China. Shuanggou Daqu, one of the top ten famous wines, is produced here. Sihong sits on 40% of the water surface of Hongze Lake, one of the four major freshwater lakes in China, and is embedded in the national Hongze Lake Wetland Park. Sihong gave birth to an ancient civilization. Fifty thousand years ago, the people of Xiacaowan lived here after the water and thrived. It is one of the centers of biological evolution in the Cenozoic world, and it is also one of the centers of human origin.
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