Houston (usa)

Houston

Houston ranks 54th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind St. Louis, Cairo, and Bucharest. Memorable people born in Houston include Howard Hughes, Patrick Swayze, and Beyoncé. Memorable people who died in Houston include Theodore Freeman, Ken Starr, and Edward Givens. Houston has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many astronauts, and politicians. Houston is located in United States.

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the United States with a population of 2,304,580 at the 2020 census, while the Greater Houston metropolitan area at 7.8 million residents is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the nation and second-most populous in Texas. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County. Covering a total area of 640.4 square miles (1,659 km2), Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the country and the largest whose municipal government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Although primarily located within Harris County, portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties. Houston also functions as the southeastern anchor of the Texas Triangle megaregion. Read more on Wikipedia