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.
Weng'an is located in the southwest hinterland, is a national health county and China's ecological charm county, the national phosphorus chemical ecological production base, known as the "Asian phosphorus warehouse" reputation. Weng'an is an old revolutionary base. The Red Army passed Weng'an four times on the long March and held a historic monkey farm meeting in Weng'an, which Comrade Zhou Enlai called "the eve of a great turning point." Weng'an is the place of origin of life and the ancient city with thousands of years of civilization. Fossils of faunas from 610 million years ago have been found here, and they are the earliest fossils found so far. On December 25, 2017, the General Office of Guizhou Provincial Government issued the implementation Plan for Guizhou Province to accelerate the Construction of a New Type of urbanization with Mountain characteristics, which shows that the Guizhou Provincial Government supports Weng'an County to remove counties and cities.