Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the sixth most populous in North America. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. It is home to the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, and NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
About Houston in brief
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the sixth most populous in North America. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The city is named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas. Houston’s economy since the late 19th century has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. Houston has the second most Fortune 500 headquarters of any U. S. municipality within its city limits. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnages handled. It is home to the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, and NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The Houston area is located on land that was once home of the Karankawa and the Atakapa indigenous peoples for at least 2,000 years before the first known settlers arrived. These tribes are almost nonexistent today; this was most likely caused by foreign disease, as well as competition with various settler groups in the 18th and 19th centuries. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. It has been described as the most racially and ethnically diverse major metropolis in the US. It attracts more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District, which attracts year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.
It also has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston has become a global city, with strengths in culture, medicine, and research. It is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area in theUnited States and the secondMost populous in Texas after the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with a population of 7,066,141 in 2019. It was briefly the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s. It grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th Century. The arrival of the 20th century saw a convergence of economic factors which fueled rapid growth in Houston, including a burgeoning port and railroad industry, the decline of Texas’s primary port following a devastating 1900 hurricane, the subsequent construction of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom. Houston was founded by land investors on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. It became the first city in Texas to provide the new government with a capitol building in 1837, but that grew to about 1,500 days by the time that the first Texas Congress convened for the first time in 1838. The current capitol is located in Austin, Texas, and was named in honor of former President Sam Houston in 1841. The first city to be named after him was Houston, Texas.
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