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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.

Xiayi County, referred to as Li, known as Liyi in ancient times, is under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, known as "the land of Confucius in China". Located in the east of Henan Province, the joint of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Yongcheng and Dangshan counties to the east, Yucheng County to the west, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province to the south, Shan County, Heze City, Shandong Province to the north, Longhai Railway and Lianghuo Expressway across Xiayi, it is the best investment city for the Central Plains to undertake the industrial transfer of the three major economic circles of "Yangtze River Delta", "Pearl River Delta" and "around Bohai Bay". As of September 2018, Xiayi County has jurisdiction over 24 townships and 731 administrative villages, with a total area of 1481 square kilometers and a total population of 1.2 million. Xiayi is the ancient capital of China, the ancestral land of China, and one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There were people here as early as the Neolithic Age more than 5000 years ago
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