Houston
Houston is a sprawling port city in Southeastern Texas. An oil boom and continuing international immigration has brought explosive growth to the city, and it is now the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States and the most diverse large city since 2021.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Downtown Houston.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as South Inner Loop and West Houston.
East Houston
Rough-and-tumble East Houston is the city's beating, industrial heart - along with William P.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Toyota Center and Minute Maid Park.
Minute Maid Park
Stadium
Shell Energy Stadium
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midtown and Houston Museum District.
Midtown
Suburb
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.Houston Museum District
Suburb
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.Fourth Ward
Suburb
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.Houston
- City with 2,300,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 39 feet (12 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code HOU
- Description: seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States
- Postal codes77001-77096770987709977201-77210772127721377215-7723177233-7723877240-77245772487724977251-7725977261-7726377265-77275772777727977280772827728477287-772937729777299
- Also known as“City of Houston”“H-Town”“Houston City”“Houston, TX”“Petro metro”“Space City”“USHOU”
- Neighbors: Pasadena
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- Location
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Latitude
29.7589° or 29° 45′ 32″ north
Longitude
-95.3677° or 95° 22′ 4″ west
UN/LOCODE
US HOU
Open location code
76X6QJ5J+HW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Houston” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Houston”
- Albanian: “Hjuston”
- Albanian: “Houston”
- Amharic: “ሂውስተን”
- Arabic: “هيوستن”
- Aragonese: “Houston”
- Armenian: “Հյուստոն”
- Asturian: “Houston”
- Aymara: “Houston”
- Azerbaijani: “Hyuston”
- Balinese: “Houston”
- Bambara: “Houston”
- Basque: “Houston”
- Bavarian: “Houston”
- Belarusian: “Г’юстан”
- Belarusian: “Х’юстан”
- Belarusian: “Хюстан”
- Bengali: “হিউস্টন”
- Bhojpuri: “ह्यूस्टन”
- Bosnian: “Houston”
- Breton: “Houston”
- Bulgarian: “Хюстън”
- Burmese: “ဟူစတန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Houston”
- Cebuano: “Houston”
- Central Kurdish: “ھیووستن”
- Chechen: “Хьюстон”
- Chinese: “休士頓”
- Chinese: “休斯敦”
- Chinese: “休斯顿”
- Chinese: “侯斯頓”
- Chuvash: “Хьюстон”
- Cornish: “Houston, Teksas”
- Cornish: “Houston”
- Croatian: “Houston”
- Czech: “Houston”
- Dagbani: “Houston”
- Danish: “Houston”
- Dimli (individual language): “Houston”
- Dutch: “Houston”
- Eastern Mari: “Хьюстон”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيوستن”
- Emilian: “Houston”
- Erzya: “Хьюстон”
- Esperanto: “Houston”
- Esperanto: “Hustono”
- Esperanto: “Kosma Urbo”
- Estonian: “Houston”
- Ewe: “Houston”
- Extremaduran: “Houston”
- Faroese: “Houston”
- Finnish: “Houston”
- French: “Houston”
- Galician: “Houston, Texas”
- Galician: “Houston”
- Gan Chinese: “休斯頓”
- Georgian: “ჰიუსტონი”
- German: “Houston”
- Gilaki: “هيۊستن”
- Gothic: “𐌷𐍉𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌽”
- Greek: “Χιούστον, Τέξας”
- Greek: “Χιούστον”
- Guarani: “Houston”
- Gujarati: “હ્યુસ્ટન”
- Haitian: “Houston”
- Haitian: “Youstòn, Teksas”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hiû-sṳ̂-tûn”
- Hakka Chinese: “Houston”
- Hausa: “Houston”
- Hawaiian: “Houston, Kekeka”
- Hawaiian: “Houston”
- Hebrew: “יוסטון”
- Hindi: “ह्युस्टन”
- Hindi: “ह्यूस्टन”
- Hungarian: “Houston”
- Icelandic: “Houston”
- Ido: “Houston”
- Inari Sami: “Houston”
- Indonesian: “H-Town”
- Indonesian: “Houston, Texas”
- Indonesian: “Houston”
- Indonesian: “Kota Houston”
- Indonesian: “Space City”
- Indonesian: “USHOU”
- Interlingua: “Houston”
- Interlingue: “Houston”
- Inuktitut: “ᓯᐅᔅᑕᓐ”
- Irish: “Houston, Texas”
- Irish: “Houston”
- Italian: “Houston”
- Japanese: “ヒューストン”
- Javanese: “Houston, Texas”
- Javanese: “Houston”
- Kabyle: “Houston”
- Kannada: “ಹೂಸ್ಟನ್”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯೂಸ್ಟನ್”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯೂಸ್ಟನ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Хьюстон”
- Kashmiri: “ہیوسٹن”
- Kazakh: “Хьюстон”
- Kikuyu: “Houston”
- Kölsch: “Houston”
- Korean: “휴스턴”
- Kurdish: “Houston, Teksas”
- Kurdish: “Houston”
- Ladin: “Houston”
- Ladino: “Houston”
- Latin: “Hustonia”
- Latvian: “Hjūstona”
- Limburgan: “Houston”
- Lithuanian: “Hiustonas”
- Lombard: “Houston”
- Low German: “Houston”
- Luxembourgish: “Houston”
- Macedonian: “Хјустон”
- Maithili: “ह्युस्टन”
- Malagasy: “Houston”
- Malay: “Houston”
- Malayalam: “ഹ്യൂസ്റ്റൺ”
- Maltese: “Houston”
- Manx: “Houston”
- Maori: “Hūhetene”
- Marathi: “ह्युस्टन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Houston”
- Mingrelian: “ჰიუსთონი”
- Mingrelian: “ჰიუსტონი”
- Moksha: “Гьюстон”
- Mongolian: “Хьюстон”
- Moroccan Arabic: “هيوستن”
- Nepali: “ह्युस्टन”
- Northern Frisian: “Houston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houston”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Houston”
- Norwegian: “Houston”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Houston”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hūsestūn”
- Ossetian: “Хьюстон”
- Pampanga: “Houston, Texas”
- Pampanga: “Houston”
- Panjabi: “ਹੂਸਟਨ”
- Papiamento: “Houston”
- Persian: “هوستون”
- Persian: “هیوستون”
- Piemontese: “Houston”
- Polish: “Houston”
- Portuguese: “Houston”
- Pushto: “هیوستون”
- Quechua: “Houston”
- Romanian: “Houston, Texas”
- Romanian: “Houston”
- Russian: “Хьюстон”
- Sardinian: “Houston”
- Saterfriesisch: “Houston”
- Scots: “Houston”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Houston, Texas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Houston”
- Serbian: “Hjuston”
- Serbian: “USHOU”
- Serbian: “Хјустон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Houston”
- Sicilian: “Houston”
- Silesian: “Houston”
- Sindhi: “ھوسٽن”
- Sinhala: “හූස්ටන්”
- Slovak: “Houston”
- Slovenian: “Houston, Teksas”
- Slovenian: “Houston”
- Somali: “Houston”
- South Azerbaijani: “هیوستون”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Houston”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Espacial”
- Spanish: “Houston (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Houston”
- Sranan Tongo: “Houston”
- Swahili: “Houston, Texas”
- Swahili: “Houston”
- Swedish: “Houston”
- Swiss German: “Houston”
- Tagalog: “Houston”
- Tajik: “Хюстон”
- Tajik: “Ҳюстон”
- Tajik: “Ҳюстун”
- Talysh: “Hjuston”
- Tamil: “ஹியூஸ்டன்”
- Tatar: “Hyuston”
- Tatar: “Хьюстон”
- Tatar: “Һьюстон”
- Telugu: “హ్యూస్టన్”
- Thai: “ฮิวสตัน”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Houston”
- Turkish: “Houston, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Houston”
- Turkmen: “Houston”
- Twi: “Houston”
- Twi: “Husten”
- Uighur: “Hyuston”
- Ukrainian: “Г’юстон”
- Ukrainian: “Х’юстон”
- Urdu: “ہوسٹن”
- Urdu: “ہیوسٹن”
- Uzbek: “Houston”
- Uzbek: “Hyuston”
- Uzbek: “Xyuston”
- Venetian: “Houston”
- Veps: “Hjuston”
- Vietnamese: “Houston”
- Vlax Romani: “Houston”
- Volapük: “Houston”
- Waray (Philippines): “Houston”
- Welsh: “Houston”
- Western Armenian: “Հիուսթըն”
- Western Armenian: “Հիւսթըն”
- Western Frisian: “Houston”
- Western Mari: “Хьюстон”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیوسٹن”
- Wu Chinese: “休斯敦”
- Yakut: “Хьюстон”
- Yiddish: “היוסטן”
- Yoruba: “Houston”
- Yue Chinese: “侯斯頓”
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