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.
Ying County is located in the north of Shanxi Province and east of Shuozhou City. It covers an area of 1667 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 9 townships with a population of 300000 (2012). The county government is stationed in Jincheng. The plan of the county is parallelogram between 112 °58 east longitude and 113 °37 east longitude and 39 °17 east longitude and 39 °45 'north latitude. It is adjacent to Hunyuan County to the east, Shanyin County to Pingshuo to the west, Huairen County to the north, Fanzhi County and Dai County to the south. It is a continental climate in the north temperate zone, affected by the monsoon, with four distinct seasons, with an average annual temperature of about 7 ℃ and annual rainfall of 360mm. The first frost period is in late September and the frost-free period is 100 to 140 days. There are world-famous wooden pagodas in the north of Yingxian County. Yingxian wooden Pagoda is also called Buddha Palace Temple Sakyamuni Pagoda. Together with the Eiffel Tower and the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, it is called the three strange towers in the world. twenty