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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.

Xichang, the prefecture-level administrative capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, is located in the Anning River Valley in southwestern Sichuan Province. It covers an area of 2651 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 8 towns and 29 townships (including 12 Yi townships and 2 Hui townships). The resident population is 775000, and the urbanization rate is 57.57%. Xichang is a major national grain county, national pig county, the hometown of Chinese onions, Chinese flowers and trees, Chinese winter strawberries, is the world-famous Sun City, Moon City, Space City, is "a spring habitat city." Xichang is a tropical plateau monsoon climate zone, known as a small "spring city", warm in winter and cool in summer, like spring all the year round. Xichang is rich in tourism resources and is an important node on the Greater Shangri-La Tourism Ring and the Sichuan-Yunnan Tourism Golden Line. There are Qionghai Lake in and around it.
Airport In Xichang City - Xichang Qingshan Airport
Xichang Qingshan Airport (Xichang Qingshan Airport, IATA: XIC; ICAO: ZUXC), located on Airport Road, Anning Town, Xichang City, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, 11.5 kilometers south of the center of Xichang, is a 4D-level military-civilian shared domestic tourism feeder airport, Xichang Satellite Launch Center Transport Airport, a plateau airport (1562 meters)    .
On May 1, 1975, Xichang Guogailiang Airport was officially opened to navigation, and Xichang Xiaomiao Airport was abandoned.   ; On May 12, 1997, Xichang Guogailiang Airport was renamed Xichang Qingshan Airport   ; On June 29, 2011, the new terminal of Xichang Qingshan Airport opened   .
As of February 2021, the terminal building of Xichang Qingshan Airport has an area of ​​10,000 square meters, with 3 boarding bridges; 1 Class B aircraft seat and 18 Class C aircraft seats on the civil aviation station; the runway is 3,600 meters long and wide. 50 meters; can meet the annual passenger throughput of 1.1 million passengers, cargo and mail throughput of 4,950 tons, and aircraft take-off and landing of 11,579 sorties       .
In 2021, Xichang Qingshan Airport will handle a total of 1,595,315 passengers, a year-on-year increase of 67.3%, ranking 72nd in the country; cargo and mail throughput will be 4,564.8 tons, a year-on-year increase of 35.2%, ranking 81st in the country; aircraft take-offs and landings will reach 17,454 , a year-on-year increase of 66.9%, ranking 93rd in the country   .
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