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Sugar Land is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Located about 19 miles (31 km) southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59.

Beginning in the 19th century, the present-day Sugar Land area was home to a large sugar plantation in the fertile Brazos River floodplain. Following the consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company in 1908, Sugar Land grew steadily as a company town and was incorporated as a city in 1959. Since then, Sugar Land has evolved rapidly alongside other edge cities around Houston, with large-scale development of master-planned communities contributing to population swells since the 1980s.

Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas. Its population increased by more than 158{fb1e1880c459e557ac3ce17ffa2de9d6b992aa91487d45f235782beb8d8c21f0} between 1990 and 2000. Between 2000 and 2007, Sugar Land also had a 46{fb1e1880c459e557ac3ce17ffa2de9d6b992aa91487d45f235782beb8d8c21f0} increase in jobs. As of the 2010 census, the city’s population was 78,817. Following the annexation of the Greatwood and New Territory communities in December 2017, the city’s population was estimated at 118,488 as of 2019.