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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.

Siping, a prefecture-level city in Jilin Province, is located in the central hinterland of Songliao Plain and at the junction of Liao, Jilin and Mongolia provinces. Siping is an important transportation hub and logistics node city in Northeast China, which leads to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in the eastern part of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. Siping has an area of 14323 square kilometers and a population of 3.204 million, including an urban area of 1100 square kilometers and a population of 625000. Siping has jurisdiction over Tiedong District, Tiexi District, Gongzhuling City, Shuangliao City, Lishu County and Yitong County. Siping has a long history, and the site of the ancient city of Yan on the bank of Erlong Lake, 50 kilometers away from the urban area, is the witness of the Han nationality's earliest development of Northeast China. History has left cultural monuments such as Hanzhou in Liao Dynasty, Xinzhou in Jin Dynasty and Yehe Tribe in Ming Dynasty. Daqingshan Village cultural sites, Yehe ancient city ruins, Liao and Jin dynasties
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