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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.

Yongcheng, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, escrow county-level city, Yongcheng is located in the easternmost part of Henan Province, located in the junction of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, known as "the gateway to the east of Henan". Yongcheng has a total area of 2020 square kilometers and a cultivated land area of 1.8 million mu. As of 2018, Yongcheng has jurisdiction over 25 towns and 4 townships, and the municipal government is located in the north of people's Square in the middle of Dongfang Avenue. By the end of 2018, Yongcheng had a total population of 1.576 million and a resident population of 1.2388 million. Yongcheng gets its name because the city has been repeatedly beaten by water, which means "the city of eternity". During the Anti-Japanese War, it was the seat of the provincial party committee of the Henan-Anhui-Soviet Border region of the Communist Party of China during the Anti-Japanese War. In 1996, it was withdrawn from the county and set up a county-level city. In 2014, it became a river.
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