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.
Xinyuan County is located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the eastern end of Yili River Valley, and in the Gongnai River Valley. It starts from Aiken Daban in the east, is adjacent to Gongliu County and Hejing County in the south, and is bounded by Nilak County, Shawan County and Hejing County in the northeast. The total population is 316002 (2012). There are 34 ethnic groups, including Kazakh, Han, Uygur and Hui. The name of the county is located in the upper reaches of the Gongnai River, taking another "new source", which means newly reclaimed grassland or newly developed wilderness. The Kazakh language is called Gong Naisi, which means "Xiangyang" (according to textual research, it is Turkic, and later evolved from Mongolian and Kazakh). The geographical coordinates are 82 °28 east longitude, 84 °56 east longitude, 43 °03 north latitude, 43 °40 'north latitude, high east and low west, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and open to the west. It is about 196 km long from east to west and about 196 km wide in the middle.