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.
Dongguan, one of the prefecture-level cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, one of the central cities of the Pearl River Delta and one of the cities of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, is a central city on the east coast of the Pearl River Delta approved by the State Council. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 4 streets and 28 towns, with a land area of 2460.1 square kilometers, a sea area of 82.57 square kilometers, a resident population of 8.3922 million, and an urban population of 7.6386 million, with an urbanization rate of 91.02%. Dongguan is located in the central and southern part of Guangdong Province, the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, Guangzhou in the northwest, Shenzhen in the south and Huizhou in the northeast. Dongguan is the first of the "four little tigers of Guangdong" and is known as the "factory of the world". It is also one of the five prefecture-level cities without districts and one of the new first-tier cities in the country. Dongguan established a county during the period of the three Kingdoms.