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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.

Xinghai County is located in the southwest of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, and is located in the core area of national nature conservation of "Sanjiangyuan". The county has a total area of 12100 square kilometers, facing Guinan and Tongde across the Yellow River in the east, Gonghe County in the north, Dulan County in Hercynian Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and Maduo County and Maqin County in the south. It is 248 kilometers away from Xining, the capital of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and 103 kilometers away from Qiabu, capital of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The geographical coordinates are 34 °48 degrees north, 36 degrees 14 degrees north and 99 degrees 01 degrees east, 100 degrees 59 'east. The average elevation of Xinghai County is 3924 meters (Ziketan Town, where the county government is located, is 3303 meters above sea level). Although the highest point of the Ela Mountains is 5305 meters above sea level in Genergang, the lowest point is 2590 meters above sea level at the exit of the Yellow River in Heka Town. Full
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