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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.

Xiao County, a county under the jurisdiction of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located at the north gate of Anhui Province, at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, at the center of Huaihai Economic Zone, Xuzhou metropolitan area and the southeast edge of North China Plain. Known as the "thoroughfare of the four provinces", it is the node of the national implementation of overall strategies such as "Belt and Road Initiative" and "Central Plains Economic Zone" and the implementation of regional strategies such as "eastward development" and "revitalization of northern Anhui" in Anhui Province. It is bordered by Xuzhou in the east, Huaibei in the south, Lianfeng County in the north, Yongcheng and Dangshan in the northwest, Heze in Shandong Province, and Hanqiao District in Suzhou in the southeast, covering an area of 1885.3 square kilometers. Xiao County, known as Xiao Guo in ancient times, has a history of more than 6000 years of civilization and more than 3100 years of history of building the city. It is the birthplace of Han culture and filial piety culture. There are Jinzhai cultural sites, Huajia Temple sites and other Neolithic sites.
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