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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.

Xunyang County is located in the southeast of Shaanxi Province, in the eastern part of Qinba Mountains, between longitude 103 °58'to 109 °48 'east and latitude 32 °29' to 33 °13 'north. It is bordered by Baihe County and Yunxi County in Hubei Province to the east, Pingli County to the south, Zhushan County and Zhuxi County in Hubei Province to the south, Hanbin District to the west, and Zhenan County and Yunxi County in Hubei Province to the north. The county is about 82 kilometers from north to south, 79 kilometers from east to west and 390 kilometers from east to west. The county seat is located at the confluence of the Han River and Xunhe River. the new urban area extends upward for several kilometers along the west bank of the Xunhe River. The northern section is the old city of the county seat, and the place where the Xunhe River enters the Han River is in the shape of "S", so it is also called "Taiji City". The Xiang-Yu Railway has set up a station in the Liuwan community in the northwest of the county, which runs 1518 kilometers from Xiangyang, Zhengzhou and Shijiazhuang to the west of Beijing and west to Chengdu via Ankang and Dazhou.
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