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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.

Zizhong County, which belongs to Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, is located in the middle of Sichuan Basin, the middle reaches of Tuojiang River, with latitude 29 °34'~ 30 °24 'north and longitude 104 °27' ~ 105 °07 'east. It is adjacent to Anyue County of Ziyang City and Dongxing District of Neijiang City to the east, to the south of Neijiang City and Weiyuan County, Renshou County and Weiyuan County of Meishan City to the west, and Yanjiang District of Ziyang City to the north. 143 kilometers away from Chengdu and 197 kilometers away from Chongqing, it is one of the first 27 powerful counties in Sichuan. Zizhong County covers an area of 1733.96 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 22 towns. at the end of 2016, the county's total registered population was 1.2791 million. In 2016, the county's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 25.594 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1 percent over 2015. The territory is affected by rock strata and the topography is in the west.
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