Texas
Texas is the second largest and second most populous state in the United States of America. Owing to its remarkable size, distinctive culture and politics, and colorful history, many Texans maintain a fiercely independent attitude, with Texan identity often superseding American identity.
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Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park is vast and rugged area, and one of the least visited national parks in the continental U.S.Austin
Austin is a city of over 900,000 people in the Hill Country region of the U.S. state of Texas.Brownsville
Located at the southernmost tip of Texas, Brownsville is a popular location for Mexican and American beach tourists.Destinations
Gulf Coast
Texas' Gulf Coast stretches for hundreds of miles, from the Louisiana border to Brownsville on the Rio Grande.Big Bend Country
Big Bend Country is a region in Texas. It is also referred to as the Big Bend region.Texas Panhandle
The northwest corner of Texas is known as the Texas Panhandle, probably because it juts out in stark plaintiveness from the rest of the state.Texas Hotels
Texas
- Location: United States, North America
- Population: 27,500,000
- Abbreviation: TX
- Latitude of center: 31° 15' 1.6" (31.2504°) north
- Longitude of center: 99° 15' 2.2" (99.2506°) west
- Elevation: 1834 feet (559 meters)
- Neighbors: Arkansas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Louisiana, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Oklahoma and Tamaulipas
- Wikidata: Texas
- Wikimedia Commons: Texas
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Other Names for Texas
Amharic: ቴክሳስ, Arabic: تكساس, Armenian: Տեխաս, Arpitan: Tèxas, Aymara: Texas suyu, Belarusian: Штат Тэхас, Bengali: টেক্সাস, Bishnupriya: টেক্সাস, Bulgarian: Тексас, Burmese: တက္ကဆပ်ပြည်နယ်, Central Kurdish: تێکساس, Chechen: Техас, Cheyenne: Toháanoéhoëva, Chinese: 德克萨斯州, Church Slavic: Тєѯасъ, Chuvash: Техас, Cornish: Teksas, Croatian: Teksas, Dimli (individual language): Teksas, Eastern Mari: Техас, Egyptian Arabic: تكساس, English: Lone Star State, Esperanto: Teksaso, French: Texas, Gagauz: Teksas, Georgian: ტეხასი, German: Texas, Gilaki: تگزاس, Greek: Τέξας, Haitian: Teksas, Hakka Chinese: Tet-khiet-sat-sṳ̂, Hawaiian: Kekeka, Hebrew: טקסס
Hindi: टेक्सस, Inuktitut: ᑖᒃᓵᔅ, Italian: Texas, Japanese: テキサス州, Kalmyk: Теексәс, Kannada: ಟೆಕ್ಸಸ್, Kara-Kalpak: Texas shtati, Kazakh: Техас, Korean: 텍사스 주, Kurdish: Teksas, Latin: Texia, Latvian: Teksasa, Literary Chinese: 德克薩斯州, Lithuanian: Teksasas, Lojban: teksys, Macedonian: Тексас, Malayalam: ടെക്സസ്, Marathi: टेक्सास, Mazanderani: تگزاس, Mongolian: Техас, Navajo: Akałii Bikéyah, Nepali (macrolanguage): टेक्सस, Newari: तेक्सास, Northern Luri: تئگزاس, Occitan (post 1500): Tèxas, Ossetian: Техас, Pali: टेक्सास, Panjabi: ਟੈਕਸਸ, Papiamento: Teksas, Persian: تگزاس, Polish: Teksas, Portuguese: Texas, Quechua: Texas suyu
Russia Buriat: Техас, Russian: Техас, Samogitian: Teksasos, Sanskrit: टेक्सास्, Serbian: Тексас, Silesian: Teksas, Slovenian: Teksas, South Azerbaijani: تگزاس ایالتی, Spanish: Estado de Texas, Spanish: Estado de la Estrella Solitaria, Spanish: Tejas, Spanish: Texas, Tagalog: Teksas, Tajik: Тексас, Tamil: டெக்சஸ், Tatar: Техас, Telugu: టెక్సస్, Thai: รัฐเทกซัส, Tibetan: ཋེག་ཟ་སི།, Turkish: Teksas, Turkmen: Tehas, Uighur: Téksas Shitati, Ukrainian: Техас, Urdu: ٹیکساس, Western Frisian: Teksas, Western Mari: Техас, Western Panjabi: ٹیکساس, Yakut: Техас, Yiddish: טעקסאס, Yue Chinese: 德薩斯州, State of Texas
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson