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.
Turpan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, located in the middle of the autonomous region, is an olive-shaped intermountain basin in the east of Tianshan, surrounded by mountains on all sides, belonging to a typical continental warm temperate desert climate; it has jurisdiction over one district and two counties with a total area of 69713 square kilometers and a total population of 637300 in 2017. Located in the hinterland of Eurasia, Turpan is the gateway to Urumqi and an important transportation hub for the new Silk Road and Eurasian Continental Bridge. Lanxin Railway and Nanjiang Railway meet here and form a three-dimensional transportation system of "highway, railway and aviation" with Turpan airport and G30 line. It has the location and convenient transportation advantages of "connecting north and south, east to west, west to east", and realizes the regional economic integration of Wutu.