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.
Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", the provincial administrative district of the people's Republic of China, the capital of Taiyuan, is located in North China. Shanxi is bounded by 34 °34km north latitude and 114o 14km east longitude, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. The topography of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram oblique to the southwest, which is a typical mountain plateau covered by loess, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The internal ups and downs of the plateau, vertical and horizontal river valleys, landforms have mountains, hills, platforms, plains, mountain areas account for 80.1% of the total area. Shanxi Province straddles the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the river belongs to the self-produced outflow type. Shanxi Province is located in the inland of the middle latitudes and belongs to the temperate continent.