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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.

Xide County belongs to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with geographical coordinates of 102 °42'E and 28 °32 °N. It is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, the north-central part of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, bordering on the north and west, Zhaojue in the east and southeast, Mianning County and Xichang City in the west and southwest, 78 km south of Xichang City, and 483 km north of Chengdu. Xide County is 70.8km long from north to south, 59.5km from east to west and covers an area of 2200.4 square kilometers, equivalent to 3300600 mu. There are Yi, Tibetan, Qiang, Miao, Hui, Mongolian, Tujia, Su, Manchu, Yao, Dong, Naxi, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and Dai nationalities in Xide County. From January to June 2007, the gross domestic product of Xide County reached 3079.
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