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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.

Tongchuan is a municipality under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province, which is located in the junction zone of central Shaanxi Province, Guanzhong Basin and Northern Shaanxi Plateau, adjacent to Yan'an, Weinan and Xianyang. Tongchuan is a continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons and obvious monthly changes in air temperature. the area is 3882 square kilometers, and the city has jurisdiction over three districts and one county. In 2017, the city's resident population was 833400. Tongchuan has convenient transportation, which is an important part of the Guanzhong economic belt, and it is a necessary place leading to the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and Yan'an, the holy place of revolution. Tongchuan New area is 68 kilometers away from Xi'an and 72 kilometers away from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport. Xi'an-Huangling Expressway passes through the border, and the two branch railways of Xiantong and Meiqi are connected with the Longhai artery. In 2017, Tongchuan achieved a GDP of 34.859 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry
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