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.
Daiyue District, located in Taian City, Shandong Province, is located in the hinterland of Qilu, Jinan, the provincial capital, Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, between latitude 35 °52 "29"-36 °28 "36" and longitude 116 °50 "26"-117 °28 "16" east. It is 66 kilometers from north to south and 56 kilometers from east to west, with a total area of 917.2 square kilometers. The overall topography of Daiyue District is high in the north and low in the south, high in the east and low in the west, with mountains, hills and plains accounting for 1/3 each, which belongs to the temperate continental semi-humid monsoon climate. It is the birthplace of the ancient civilization "Dawenkou culture". In the Spring and Autumn and warring States period, it has the reputation of "plucking the land since ancient civilization, Qilu must compete for Wenyang field". During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu an, king of Huainan, left here the chant of "the beauty of the central government, there is Daiyue".