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Texas

Texas, known as the Lone Star State, offers travelers a diverse array of experiences across its expansive landscapes. As the second largest state in the U.S, Texas features varied environments such as the dense Piney Woods in the east, the rugged mountains of Big Bend National Park in the west, and the beaches along the Gulf Coast.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Houston and Austin.

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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 and the most diverse large city since 2021.

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is a city of about 965,000 people on the southeast edge of the region of Texas, making it the fourth-largest city in the state and the 11th-largest in the country.

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, the ninth largest city in the United States and the third largest in the state of Texas, is an impressive melting pot of culture and character.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Prairies and Lakes and Gulf Coast.

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The Region is located in the north central part of Texas. It is home to the , the fourth largest metropolitan area in the .

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Texas' stretches for hundreds of miles, from the border to on the Rio Grande. The beaches are excellent, and oil-rich cities like Houston make for fun nightlife, too.

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The northwest corner of Texas is known as the , probably because it juts out in stark plaintiveness from the rest of the state. Flat and dry, the steady prevailing winds can sometimes create mild dust storms, though modern farming techniques have much reduced the terrible dust storms which occurred during the "Dust Bowl Days" of the Great Depression.

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The is a region of the state of Texas in the United States of America. It has some of the most interesting history of the state. The cities here date to Spanish and Mexican days, with many beautiful Spanish missions dotting the area.

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The Big Bend is part of the region in southwestern Texas, along the border with , north of the prominent bend in the for which the region is named.

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The is the name of the region encompassing east and northeast Texas. This region of Texas often defies traditional views of the state having a mountainous desert landscape or brush-covered hills.

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Texas's southern region is, for the most part, a forbidding desert area. A borderland with nearby , it acts as a gateway for those coming north and those going south.
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Texas

Latitude of center
31.2639° or 31° 15′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-98.5456° or 98° 32′ 44″ west
Population
31,300,000
Elevation
1,834 feet (559 metres)
Abbreviation
“TX”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9286798509
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4736286
Wiki­data ID
Q1439
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Texas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Texas”
  • Albanian: “Teksasi”
  • Albanian: “Texas”
  • Amharic: “ቴክሳስ”
  • Arabic: “تكساس”
  • Aragonese: “Texas”
  • Armenian: “Տեխաս”
  • Arpitan: “Tèxas”
  • Asturian: “Texas”
  • Aymara: “Texas suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Texas”
  • Balinese: “Téxas”
  • Bashkir: “Техас”
  • Basque: “Texas”
  • Bavarian: “Texas”
  • Belarusian: “Тэксас”
  • Belarusian: “Тэхас”
  • Bengali: “টেক্সাস”
  • Bhojpuri: “टेक्सास”
  • Bishnupriya: “টেক্সাস”
  • Bislama: “Texas”
  • Bosnian: “Teksas”
  • Bosnian: “Texas”
  • Bosnian: “TX”
  • Breton: “Texas”
  • Bulgarian: “Тексас”
  • Burmese: “တက္ကဆပ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Texas”
  • Cebuano: “Texas”
  • Central Bikol: “Texas”
  • Central Kurdish: “تێکساس”
  • Chavacano: “Texas”
  • Chechen: “Техас”
  • Cherokee: “ᏅᏓᎩ”
  • Cheyenne: “Toháano’ého’ëva”
  • Chinese: “Texas”
  • Chinese: “孤星州”
  • Chinese: “得克萨斯州”
  • Chinese: “得州”
  • Chinese: “德克萨斯州”
  • Chinese: “德克薩斯州”
  • Chinese: “德州”
  • Chinese: “德薩斯州”
  • Chinese: “朋友州”
  • Chinese: “美国德州”
  • Church Slavic: “Тєѯасъ”
  • Chuvash: “Техас”
  • Cornish: “Teksas”
  • Corsican: “Texas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tehas”
  • Croatian: “Teksas”
  • Czech: “State of Texas”
  • Czech: “Texas”
  • Dagbani: “Texas”
  • Danish: “Texas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Teksas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Texas”
  • Dutch: “Texas”
  • Dutch: “TX”
  • Eastern Mari: “Техас”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تكساس”
  • Esperanto: “Solstela Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Teksaso”
  • Esperanto: “Teksaso”
  • Esperanto: “TX”
  • Estonian: “Texas”
  • Ewe: “Texas”
  • Faroese: “Texas”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Texas”
  • Finnish: “Teksas”
  • Finnish: “Texas”
  • French: “Texas”
  • Gagauz: “Tehas”
  • Gagauz: “Teksas”
  • Galician: “Texas”
  • Georgian: “ტეხასი”
  • German: “Texas”
  • German: “TX”
  • German: “US-TX”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Texas”
  • Gilaki: “تگزاس”
  • Gorontalo: “Texas”
  • Gothic: “𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃𐌰𐍃”
  • Greek: “Τέξας”
  • Guarani: “Tehás”
  • Guarani: “Texas”
  • Gujarati: “ટેક્સસ”
  • Gujarati: “ટેક્સાસ”
  • Haitian: “Teksas”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Texas”
  • Hausa: “Texas”
  • Hawaiian: “Kekeka”
  • Hebrew: “טקסס”
  • Hindi: “टॅक्सस”
  • Hindi: “टेक्सस”
  • Hindi: “टेक्सास”
  • Hungarian: “Texas”
  • Icelandic: “Texas”
  • Ido: “Texas”
  • Igbo: “Texas”
  • Iloko: “Texas”
  • Inari Sami: “Texas”
  • Indonesian: “Texas”
  • Interlingua: “Texas”
  • Interlingue: “Texas”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑖᒃᓵᔅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Texas”
  • Irish: “Texas”
  • Italian: “Texas”
  • Japanese: “テキサス州”
  • Javanese: “Texas”
  • Kabiyè: “Tɛkɩzasɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Texas”
  • Kabyle: “Tiksas”
  • Kalmyk: “Теексәс”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಕ್ಸಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Texas shtati”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Texas”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Техас”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹیکساس”
  • Kazakh: “техас”
  • Kazakh: “Техас”
  • Kirghiz: “Техас”
  • Komering: “Texas”
  • Korean: “텍사스”
  • Korean: “텍사스주”
  • Kurdish: “Teksas”
  • Ladin: “Texas”
  • Ladino: “Texas”
  • Lao: “ເທັກຊາສ”
  • Latin: “Texia”
  • Latvian: “Teksasa”
  • Ligurian: “Texas”
  • Limburgan: “Texas”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Texas”
  • Literary Chinese: “德克薩斯州”
  • Lithuanian: “Teksasas”
  • Lojban: “teksys”
  • Lombard: “Texas”
  • Low German: “Texas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Texas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Texas”
  • Macedonian: “Тексас”
  • Maithili: “टेक्सस”
  • Malagasy: “Texas”
  • Malay: “Texas”
  • Malayalam: “ടെക്സസ്”
  • Maltese: “Stat ta‘ Texas”
  • Maltese: “Texas”
  • Maltese: “TX”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯦꯛꯁꯥꯁ”
  • Manx: “Texas”
  • Maori: “Tēkiki”
  • Maori: “Texas”
  • Marathi: “टेक्सास”
  • Mazanderani: “تگزاس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Texas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tek-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Texas”
  • Minangkabau: “Texas”
  • Mingrelian: “ტეხასი”
  • Moksha: “Тэхас”
  • Mongolian: “Техас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طيكساس”
  • Nauru: “Texas”
  • Navajo: “Akałii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “टेक्सस”
  • Newari: “टेक्सास”
  • Newari: “तेक्सास”
  • Northern Frisian: “Texas”
  • Northern Luri: “تگزاس”
  • Northern Sami: “Texas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tex.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Texas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “TX”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Texas”
  • Norwegian: “Texas”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Texas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèxas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܟܣܐܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Texas”
  • Ossetian: “Техас”
  • Pali: “टेक्सास”
  • Pampanga: “Texas”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੈਕਸਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Teksas”
  • Persian: “تگزاس”
  • Picard: “Texas”
  • Piemontese: “Texas”
  • Polish: “Teksas”
  • Portuguese: “Texas”
  • Pushto: “تکزاس”
  • Quechua: “Texas suyu”
  • Romanian: “Texas”
  • Romansh: “Texas”
  • Russia Buriat: “Техас”
  • Russian: “Тексас”
  • Russian: “Техас”
  • Russian: “Штат Одинокой звезды”
  • Russian: “Штат Техас”
  • Rusyn: “Техас”
  • Samogitian: “Teksasos”
  • Sanskrit: “टेक्‍सास”
  • Sanskrit: “टेक्सास्”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Texas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Texas”
  • Scots: “Texas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Texas”
  • Serbian: “Тексас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Texas”
  • Sicilian: “Texas”
  • Silesian: “Teksas”
  • Sindhi: “ٽيڪساس”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙක්සාස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Texas”
  • Slovak: “Texas”
  • Slovenian: “Teksas”
  • Slovenian: “Texas”
  • Slovenian: “TX”
  • Somali: “Texas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تگزاس ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تگزاس”
  • Spanish: “Estado de la Estrella Solitaria”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Tejas”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Texas”
  • Spanish: “Estado De Texas”
  • Spanish: “Tejas”
  • Spanish: “Texas (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Texas”
  • Spanish: “TJ”
  • Swahili: “Texas”
  • Swedish: “Texas”
  • Swiss German: “Texas”
  • Tagalog: “Texas”
  • Tajik: “Техас”
  • Talysh: “Teksas”
  • Talysh: “Texas”
  • Tamil: “டெக்சஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Техас”
  • Telugu: “టెక్సస్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเทกซัส”
  • Thai: “รัฐเท็กซัส”
  • Tibetan: “ཋེག་ཟ་སི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Texas”
  • Turkish: “State of Texas”
  • Turkish: “Teksas eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Teksas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Tex.”
  • Turkish: “TX”
  • Turkish: “US-TX”
  • Turkmen: “Tehas”
  • Uighur: “Téksas Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “TX”
  • Ukrainian: “Техас”
  • Ukrainian: “штат Техас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Texas”
  • Urdu: “ٹیکساس”
  • Uzbek: “Texas”
  • Venetian: “Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Tếch-xát”
  • Vietnamese: “Tếch-xớt”
  • Vietnamese: “Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “TX”
  • Vlaams: “Texas”
  • Vlax Romani: “Texas”
  • Volapük: “Täxasän”
  • Volapük: “Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Texas”
  • Welsh: “Texas”
  • Western Armenian: “Թեքսաս”
  • Western Frisian: “Teksas”
  • Western Mari: “Техас”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹیکساس”
  • Wu Chinese: “徳克萨斯州”
  • Wu Chinese: “德克萨斯州”
  • Yakut: “Техас”
  • Yiddish: “טעקסאס”
  • Yiddish: “טעקסעס”
  • Yoruba: “Texas”
  • Yue Chinese: “Texas”
  • Yue Chinese: “得實省”
  • Yue Chinese: “德克薩斯州”
  • Yue Chinese: “德州”
  • Yue Chinese: “德沙士省”
  • Yue Chinese: “德薩斯州”
  • Zeeuws: “Texas”
  • Zhuang: “Texas”
  • Zulu: “Texas”
  • “ma Tesa”
  • “Teksasos”
  • “Texas”
  • “Tèxas”
  • “टेक्सास”

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