San Antonio (/ˌsæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ/ SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Texas, United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas. It is the 12th most-populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents in 2020.
Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexican Republic. It is the oldest municipality in Texas, having celebrated its 300th anniversary on May 1, 2018.
Bole City, located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is the capital of Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, the seat of the Fifth Division of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and the political, economic and cultural center of the whole state. Bordering Kazakhstan, the border is 95 kilometers long and 524 kilometers away from Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region. It is an important open city along the border in western China and the western bridgehead of the second Eurasian Continental Bridge. Alashankou Port, the first-class open port in China (established in 2012), is a state-level border economic cooperation zone and import and export trade processing zone integrating industry, trade, tourism, real estate development and other industries. It has jurisdiction over three towns and two townships, two state-owned pastures and three streets, and five regimental farms of the Fifth Division of the Corps (Shuanghe City was established in 2016), and the administration of the whole city