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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.

Xiangcheng, located in the southeast of Henan Province, Zhoukou City under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, located in the south of the Yellow River alluvial plain, the main tributary of the Huaihe River in the middle reaches of the Shaying River. Located at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, Da-Guang Expressway and Ningluo Expressway meet in the urban area, 106 National Highway and 5 provincial highways cross the whole territory, Luofu Railway connects Jingguang and Jingjiu, and Shaying River shipping runs directly to the Yangtze River. it is a better meeting point of people flow, material flow, capital flow and information flow in southeast Henan. In 2018, the city's GDP reached 33.991 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. Xiangcheng's industrial system, which is supported by monosodium glutamate, leather, medicine and textile, is the largest handmade shoe production base in China, the location of China's famous lotus monosodium glutamate, and the nearest waterway city in the central and western regions to the Yangtze River Delta. In 2011, he won the "Best Investment City in China" and "medium".
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