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.
Shifang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province and hosted by Deyang City, is located in the Chengdu Plain in the hinterland of Sichuan Basin, adjacent to Mianzhu City and Jingyang District in the east, Guanghan City in the south and Pengzhou City in the west, belonging to the subtropical humid climate zone; it has jurisdiction over 2 streets and 14 towns with a total area of 864 square kilometers and a total population of 430000 in 2017. Shifu once enjoyed the reputation of "Yuji fairy hometown" because of the footprints of Dayu. Li Bing, a famous hydrologist in the Qin Dynasty, once treated the water here and died here. Shifang is also the hometown of Ma Daoyi, the eighth ancestor of Southern Zen Buddhism, and the sealed place of Yongya, a famous general of Han Dynasty, so Shifang City is also known as Yongcheng. The main natural landscapes of Shifang are Fenghua Mountain, Qingniutuo and so on. On December 14, 2017, Shifang was awarded the fourth civilized Model City of Sichuan Province. In November 2018, it was confirmed by the Ministry of Science and Technology