Mesquite

Mesquite, also known as the Rodeo Capital of Texas, and prior hangout of outlaw train robber Sam Bass, is an eastern suburb of .
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  • Type: City with 150,000 residents
  • Description: city in Dallas and Kaufman counties in Texas, United States
  • Also known as: Mesquite, Texas” and “Mesquite, TX
  • Postal codes: 75149, 75150, 75181, 75185, and 75187

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mesquite High School.

School
is a public high school in Mesquite, , United States. It is part of the Mesquite Independent School District. It participates in the University Interscholastic League 6A division.

Mesquite

Latitude
32.7666° or 32° 45′ 60″ north
Longitude
-96.5995° or 96° 35′ 58″ west
Population
150,000
Elevation
495 feet (151 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US MSQ
Open location code
8645QC82+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151353292
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4710826
Wiki­data ID
Q51696
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mesquite” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مسكيت
  • Arabic: موسكو
  • Asturian: Mesquite
  • Basque: Mesquite
  • Belarusian: Мескіт
  • Belarusian: Мэскіт
  • Bengali: মেসকিট
  • Catalan: Mesquite
  • Cebuano: Mesquite
  • Central Kurdish: مێسکوایت
  • Chechen: Месквит
  • Chinese: Mesquite
  • Chinese: 梅斯基特
  • Croatian: Mesquite
  • Czech: Mesquite
  • Dagbani: Mesquite
  • Danish: Mesquite
  • Dutch: Mesquite
  • Egyptian Arabic: موسكو
  • Esperanto: Mesquite
  • Finnish: Mesquite, TX
  • Finnish: Mesquite
  • French: Mesquite
  • German: Mesquite
  • Gilaki: مسکيت
  • Greek: Μέσκιτ
  • Gujarati: મેસક્યુટ
  • Haitian: Mesquite, Texas
  • Haitian: Mesquite
  • Hebrew: מסקיט (טקסס)
  • Hebrew: מסקיט
  • Hindi: मेस्कीत, टेक्सस
  • Hindi: मेस्कीत
  • Hungarian: Mesquite
  • Indonesian: Mesquite, Texas
  • Indonesian: Mesquite
  • Irish: Mesquite, Texas
  • Irish: Mesquite
  • Italian: Mesquite
  • Japanese: メスキート
  • Kannada: ಮೆಸ್ಕ್ವೈಟ್
  • Korean: 메스키트
  • Ladin: Mesquite
  • Latvian: Meskvita
  • Lithuanian: Meskitas
  • Malagasy: Mesquite, Texas
  • Malagasy: Mesquite
  • Malay: Mesquite
  • Malayalam: മെസ്ക്വിറ്റ്
  • Marathi: मेसक्युट
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mesquite
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mesquite
  • Norwegian: Mesquite
  • Occitan (post 1500): Mesquite
  • Persian: مسکیت، تگزاس
  • Persian: مسکیت
  • Polish: Mesquite
  • Portuguese: Mesquite
  • Russian: Мескит
  • Serbian: Мескит
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mesquite, Texas
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mesquite
  • Sinhala: මෙස්ක්විට්
  • Slovak: Mesquite
  • Slovenian: Mesquite
  • South Azerbaijani: مسکیت، تکزاس
  • Spanish: Mesquite (Texas)
  • Spanish: Mesquite
  • Swahili: Mesquite, Texas
  • Swahili: Mesquite
  • Swedish: Mesquite, Texas
  • Swedish: Mesquite
  • Tagalog: Mesquite, Texas
  • Tagalog: Mesquite
  • Tamil: மெஸ்குயிட்
  • Tatar: Мескит
  • Telugu: మెస్కిత్
  • Thai: เมสควิต
  • Turkish: Mesquite, Teksas
  • Turkish: Mesquite
  • Ukrainian: Месквіт
  • Ukrainian: Мескіт
  • Urdu: مسکیٹ، ٹیکساس
  • Urdu: مسکیٹ
  • Uzbek: Mesquite
  • Venetian: Mesquite
  • Vietnamese: Mesquite, Texas
  • Vietnamese: Mesquite
  • Volapük: Mesquite
  • Waray (Philippines): Mesquite, Texas
  • Waray (Philippines): Mesquite
  • Welsh: Mesquite, Texas
  • Welsh: Mesquite
  • Western Panjabi: میسکوٹ

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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 “Mesquite”. Photo: Lothar1976, Public domain.