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.
Xuzhou District, which belongs to Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southern margin of Sichuan Basin, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the lower reaches of Jinsha River and Minjiang River, and the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces; the topography is long from north to south, narrow from east to west, high in the southwest and low in the northeast, with the residual veins of the big and small Liangshan mountains in the west, the north slope of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south and the hilly area on the Chinese side of the basin in the northeast. The total area is 2570 square kilometers. Xuzhou, also known as Qiandao, has a long history of more than 2000 years since the city was founded six years after the height of the Western Han Dynasty. Historical and cultural celebrities such as Zhao Yiman, an anti-Japanese national heroine (formerly from Yibin County), Liu Hua, leader of the modern labor movement, Lu Deming, commander of the Autumn harvest uprising (formerly from Yibin County), Zheng Youzhi, the agricultural king of southern Sichuan, and Luo Zhe-wen, an ancient architect, emerged. In 2018, Xuzhou District has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 19 towns and 3 townships, with resident population.