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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.

Zaozhuang, a prefecture-level city of Shandong Province, is located in the south of Shandong Province, bordering Pingyi County, Fei County and Lanling County of Linyi City in the east, Tongshan District, Jiawang District and Pizhou City, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in the south, Weishan County in Jining City in the west, and Weishan Lake in the north. Zoucheng City, Jining City in the north. Between longitude 116o 48km east and latitude 34 °27km, the width is 56 km from east to west and 96 km from north to south, with a total area of 4563 square km, accounting for 2.97% of the total area of Shandong Province. Zaozhuang, the city's resident, formed a village in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was named Zaozhuang because of its many jujube trees. It was officially used after the city was established in 1961. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, high in the east and low in the west, tilting from northeast to southwest. The hills account for 54.6% of the total area, and the plains account for about 54.6% of the total area.
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