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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.

Yinchuan, referred to as "Yin", is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, a national historical and cultural city, and one of the important central cities in Northwest China. The military, political, economic, cultural, scientific research, transportation and financial center of the autonomous region is a comprehensive industrial city focusing on the development of light and textile industry and coordinated development of machinery, chemical industry and building materials industry. Located in the middle of Ningxia Plain, located on the western edge of Ordos in the east and Helan Mountain in the west, the Yellow River runs through the city. It is a famous historical and cultural city in China, a central city in the adjacent area of Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Gansu, and a node city of the Silk Road. it is a key economic zone for the in-depth implementation of the western development strategy. Yinchuan is an ancient city with a long history. Human beings thrived at the Shuidonggou site as early as 30,000 years ago. Yinchuan, the capital of the Xixia Dynasty in history, is a famous historical and cultural city of the country.
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