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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.

Xuancheng, known as Wanling and Xuanzhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, located in the southeast of Anhui Province, bordered by Hangzhou and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province to the east, Huangshan in the south, Chizhou and Wuhu in the west and northwest, Maanshan in the province and Nanjing, Changzhou and Wuxi in Jiangsu Province to the north and northeast. It is located on the western waist line of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle. It is a member city of Nanjing metropolitan area and the central city of G60 Kechuang Corridor. The city of Wanjiang takes the first wing of the demonstration area to undertake industrial transfer, which is the forward position for the central region to undertake the industrial and capital transfer in the eastern region, the central city of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and an important channel for the southeast coast to communicate with the interior. Xuancheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been said to be "the combination of the south and the north" since ancient times. Since the establishment of the county in the Western Han Dynasty, it has a history of more than 2000 years. Xuancheng has been since the Western Han Dynasty.
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