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.
Ruoqiang County, under the jurisdiction of Bayingoleng Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the southeast of Bazhou, on the southeast edge of Taklimakan Desert, longitude 86 °45 °E, latitude 36 °~ 41 °23'N. It is bordered by Qiemo County in the west, Yuli County and Shanshan County and Hami City in the north, Gansu Province and Qinghai Province in the east, and Tibet Autonomous region in the south, with a land area of 202300 square kilometers, which is the largest county in the country (about the size of two Zhejiang provinces). The county people's government is stationed in Ruoqiang Town, 894 kilometers away from Urumqi and 444 kilometers away from Korla, the state capital. Ruoqiang County has been the second strategic passage from the mainland to Central Asia and Xinjiang to the mainland since ancient times, and it was also the necessary route of the ancient "Silk Road." The county has jurisdiction over two management committees,