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.
Heshan, a county-level city in charge of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the south of Guangdong Province, facing Nanhai District and Shunde District in the east, Gaoming District in the north, Pengjiang District and Xinhui District in the south, and Kaiping City and Xinxing County in the west. 325 National Highway, Jianghe Expressway, Fokai Expressway and Jiangzhao Highway run through the city. One of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Heshan was founded as a county in the tenth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732). It was named because there are mountains in the city that look like cranes. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was jointly known as Gaohe County with Gaoming County, and the organizational system of Heshan County was restored in 1982. In November 1993, the county was withdrawn and established as a city, under the jurisdiction of 10 towns, 22 community committees, 137 village committees and 10 immigrant villages in the three Gorges Reservoir area. Heshan City has won "80 well-off counties (cities)" and "one of the top 100 counties with national comprehensive strength".