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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.

Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Qinghai Province, is located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and on the western edge of the Loess Plateau. It has a total area of 34389.89 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over three counties and one autonomous county. In 2017, it has a resident population of 283000. There are 36 sites in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture which have been announced by the people's Government of Qinghai Province. Among them, the national cultural relics protection units are Xihai County Zhilongyi City in the Western Han Dynasty; there are 11 cultural relics protection units at the provincial level; more than 40 tombs have been cleared and more than 700 cultural relics have been unearthed. This is also the place where Mr. Wang Luobin collected the style when he wrote the famous song "in that distant place". In 2017, the gross domestic product of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was 8.291 billion yuan, down 20.3% from the previous year at comparable prices.
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