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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.

Turpan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, located in the middle of the autonomous region, is an olive-shaped intermountain basin in the east of Tianshan, surrounded by mountains on all sides, belonging to a typical continental warm temperate desert climate; it has jurisdiction over one district and two counties with a total area of 69713 square kilometers and a total population of 637300 in 2017. Located in the hinterland of Eurasia, Turpan is the gateway to Urumqi and an important transportation hub for the new Silk Road and Eurasian Continental Bridge. Lanxin Railway and Nanjiang Railway meet here and form a three-dimensional transportation system of "highway, railway and aviation" with Turpan airport and G30 line. It has the location and convenient transportation advantages of "connecting north and south, east to west, west to east", and realizes the regional economic integration of Wutu.
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In the last week of 2018, feel the beauty of winter in Xinjiang. Your browser does not support playback at the moment, we will solve it as soon as pos
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Jiaohe Ancient City, Turpan, Xinjiang
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