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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.

Xuanhan County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located at the southern foot of Dabashan Mountain in the northeast of Sichuan Basin, between longitude 107 °22, longitude 108 °32, longitude 31 °06, latitude 31 °49, Chengkou County, Chongqing in the northeast, Kaizhou District, Chongqing in the east, Kaijiang County in the south, Dachuan District, Tongchuan District and Pingchang County in the west, and Wanyuan County in the north. Located in the joint of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei and Shaanxi, it is a satellite city of Dazhou. The county seat is 32 kilometers away from Dazhou City and 42 kilometers from Dazhou Airport. Xiang-Yu Railway, Chongqing-Shaanxi Expressway and Dawan Expressway pass through the border, only 2.5 hours to Chongqing. Xuanhan County covers an area of 4271 square kilometers, 31 towns, 19 townships and 4 ethnic townships. In 2016, the total registered population was 1.3234 million (permanent resident population 1.0315 million).
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