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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.

Zhenyuan County belongs to Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, 190 kilometers away from Kaili City, the capital of Guizhou Province, located in the Wuling Mountain area in the east of Guizhou Province, is a slope zone of transition from Guizhou Plateau to Xiangxi hills, Xinhuang, Hunan, bordering Sansui and Jianhe to the south, Shiqian, Tongren City to the north, is the east gate of Guizhou Province, known as "the lock key of Yunnan and Chu, the gateway to eastern Guizhou". It belongs to the humid climate zone of the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 16.6 ℃, a frost-free period of 292 days, an annual precipitation of 1057 mm, and annual sunshine hours of 1200 hours. Zhenyuan County has a total area of 1878 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 12 townships (towns), 110 administrative villages, 5 communities and 4 neighborhood committees, with a total population of 259000, of which 99000 are from 22 ethnic minorities, including Miao, Dong and Tujia, accounting for the total.
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