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.
Xingtai, known as Xingzhou and Shunde in ancient times, is the prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, the northern gateway city of the Central Plains urban agglomeration and the important node city of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. By the end of 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 19 counties (cities and districts), with a total area of 12500 square kilometers, a resident population of 7.3744 million, and a regional GDP of 215.076 billion yuan. Xingtai is located in the south of Hebei Province, adjacent to Taihang Mountain and Shanxi Province in the west, the Grand Canal and Shandong Province in the east, Shijiazhuang and Hengshui in the north and Handan in the south. The territory of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Beijing-Kowloon High-speed Railway,.