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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.

Wensu County, which belongs to Aksu region of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located at the southern foot of Tomur Peak in the middle of Tianshan in the west, the northwest edge of Tarim Basin, the border with Baicheng and Xinhe counties in the east, the city of Aksu in the south, the Tashkent River and Wushi County in the west, and the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan and Zhaosu County in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang in the north. It is between latitude 40 °52 mi 42 °15 N and longitude 79 °28 Mel 81 °30'E. it is 171km long from east to west and 158km wide from north to south, with a total area of 14569.3 square kilometers. Wensu is a place name in the western region of the Han Dynasty, and the Uyghur language is called "Aksu Kuona Xiehai", that is, the meaning of the old city of Aksu. Wensu is the 36 country of the ancient western region.
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Walking through the high-speed road on the Gobi Desert, chasing the sunset to Bachu (Bachu Tour 9)
Aksu Wensu Airport Watching the Gobi Desert Sunset from the Highway Walking on the high-speed road on the Gobi Desert, chasing the sunset to Bachu (Ba