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Brownsville

Located at the southernmost tip of , Brownsville is a popular location for Mexican and American beach tourists. It is part of the , a four-county region known for its abundance in citrus fruit production and Winter Texan population.
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  • Type: City with 187,000 residents
  • Description: seat of Cameron County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: “Brownsville, Texas”, “Brownsville, TX”, “Fort Brown”, and “Fort Taylor”
  • Postal codes: 78520-78523 and 78526

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gladys Porter Zoo and Immaculate Conception Cathedral.

Zoo
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is a zoological and botanical park located in Brownsville, Texas, United States. The zoo officially opened on September 3, 1971, and currently averages over 424,000 visitors annually.

Church
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is a historic church at 1218 East Jefferson Street in Brownsville, Texas, . It is the cathedral church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville.

Bridge
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The Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge, also known as B&M International Bridge, and Express Bridge, is one of three international bridges that cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Matamoros.

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is a city of 520,000 people in in . is a major historical site, the site of several battles and events of the Mexican War of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, the Texas Revolution, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, and the French Intervention as a result of which the city earned its title of "Undefeated, Loyal, and Heroic".

Brownsville

Latitude
25.9024° or 25° 54′ 9″ north
Longitude
-97.4982° or 97° 29′ 53″ west
Population
187,000
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
IATA airport code
BRO
United Nations Location Code
US BRO
Open location code
76Q4WG22+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151629400
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4676740
Wiki­data ID
Q51693
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Brownsville” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Albanian: “Brownsville”
  • Arabic: “براونزفيل”
  • Armenian: “Բրաունսվիլ”
  • Asturian: “Brownsville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Braunsvil”
  • Basque: “Brownsville”
  • Belarusian: “Браўнсвіл”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাউঞ্জভিল, টেক্সাস”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাউঞ্জভিল”
  • Breton: “Brownsville”
  • Bulgarian: “Браунсвил”
  • Catalan: “Brownsville”
  • Cebuano: “Brownsville (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Texas)”
  • Cebuano: “Brownsville”
  • Central Kurdish: “بروونسڤیڵ”
  • Chechen: “Браунсвилл”
  • Chinese: “布朗斯維爾”
  • Chinese: “布朗斯维尔”
  • Cornish: “Brownsville, Teksas”
  • Cornish: “Brownsville”
  • Croatian: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Croatian: “Brownsville”
  • Czech: “Brownsville”
  • Dagbani: “Brownsville”
  • Danish: “Brownsville”
  • Dutch: “Brownsville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “براونزفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Brownsville (Teksaso)”
  • Esperanto: “Brownsville”
  • Faroese: “Brownsville”
  • Finnish: “Brownsville”
  • French: “Brownsville (Texas)”
  • French: “Brownsville”
  • Galician: “Brownsville”
  • German: “Brownsville”
  • Gilaki: “برأؤنزويل”
  • Greek: “Μπράουνσβιλ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાઉન્સવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Brownsville”
  • Hebrew: “בראונסוויל”
  • Hindi: “ब्राउन्सविले, टेक्सस”
  • Hindi: “ब्राउन्सविले”
  • Hungarian: “Brownsville”
  • Icelandic: “Brownsville”
  • Indonesian: “Brownsville”
  • Irish: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Irish: “Brownsville”
  • Italian: “Brownsville (Texas)”
  • Italian: “Brownsville”
  • Japanese: “ブラウンズヴィル”
  • Japanese: “ブラウンズビル”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೌನ್ಸ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “브라운즈빌”
  • Ladin: “Brownsville”
  • Latvian: “Braunsvila”
  • Lithuanian: “Braunsvilis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brownsville”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brownsville”
  • Malagasy: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Brownsville”
  • Malay: “Brownsville”
  • Marathi: “ब्राउंनसविले”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brownsville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brownsville i Texas”
  • Norwegian: “Brownsville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brownsville”
  • Persian: “براونزویل، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “براونزویل”
  • Polish: “Brownsville”
  • Portuguese: “Brownsville (Texas)”
  • Portuguese: “Brownsville”
  • Russian: “Браунсвилл”
  • Scots: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Scots: “Brownsville”
  • Serbian: “Браунсвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brownsville”
  • Silesian: “Brownsville”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රවුන්ස්විල්”
  • Slovak: “Brownsville”
  • Slovenian: “Brownsville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “براونزویل، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Brownsville (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Brownsville”
  • Swahili: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Swahili: “Brownsville”
  • Swedish: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Swedish: “Brownsville”
  • Tagalog: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Tagalog: “Brownsville”
  • Tamil: “பிரௌன்ஸ்வில்லே”
  • Tatar: “Браунсвил”
  • Telugu: “బ్రౌన్స్ విల్లే”
  • Thai: “บราวน์สวิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Brownsville, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Brownsville”
  • Ukrainian: “Браунсвилл”
  • Ukrainian: “Браунсвілл”
  • Urdu: “براونزویل، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “براونزویل”
  • Uzbek: “Brownsville”
  • Venetian: “Brownsville”
  • Vietnamese: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Brownsville”
  • Volapük: “Brownsville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brownsville”
  • Welsh: “Brownsville, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Brownsville”
  • Western Frisian: “Brownsville”
  • Western Panjabi: “براؤنزول”
  • Wu Chinese: “布朗斯维尔 (德克萨斯州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “布朗斯维尔（德克萨斯州）”
  • “Brownsville”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Brownsville”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, CC0.