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.Essential Destinations
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Prairies and Lakes
The Prairies and Lakes Region is located in the north central part of Texas.
Gulf Coast
Texas' Gulf Coast stretches for hundreds of miles…
Texas Panhandle
The northwest corner of Texas is known as the Texas…
Hill Country
The Hill Country is a region of the state of Texas in the United States of America.
Big Bend Country
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Piney Woods
The Piney Woods is the name of the region encompassing east and northeast Texas.
South Texas Plains
Texas's southern region is, for the most part, a forbidding desert area.
Texas
- State with 31,300,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,834 feet (559 metres)
- …is abbreviated as “TX”
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as“Lone Star State”“State of Texas”“Tex.”“Texas, United States”“US-TX”
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Latitude of center
31.2639° or 31° 15′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-98.5456° or 98° 32′ 44″ west
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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”
- 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: “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”
- Choctaw: “Teksas”
- 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”
- Eastern Mari: “Техас”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تكساس”
- Emilian: “Tèxas”
- Esperanto: “Solstela Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Ŝtato Teksaso”
- Esperanto: “Teksaso”
- 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: “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”
- Iban: “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”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Texas”
- Norwegian: “Texas”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Texas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèxas”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܟܣܐܣ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Texas”
- Oromo: “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”
- 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།”
- Turkish: “State of Texas”
- Turkish: “Teksas eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Teksas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
- Turkish: “Teksas”
- Turkish: “Tex.”
- Turkish: “US-TX”
- Turkmen: “Tehas”
- Uighur: “Téksas Shitati”
- Ukrainian: “Техас”
- Ukrainian: “штат Техас”
- Upper Sorbian: “Texas”
- Urdu: “ٹیکساس”
- Uzbek: “Texas”
- Venetian: “Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Tếch-xát”
- Vietnamese: “Tếch-xớt”
- Vietnamese: “Texas”
- Vlaams: “Texas”
- Vlax Romani: “Texas”
- Volapük: “Täxasän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Texas”
- Welsh: “Texas”
- Western Armenian: “Թեքսաս”
- Western Frisian: “Teksas”
- Western Mari: “Техас”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹیکساس”
- Wu Chinese: “得克萨斯州”
- Wu Chinese: “徳克萨斯州”
- Yakut: “Техас”
- Yiddish: “טעקסאס”
- Yiddish: “טעקסעס”
- Yoruba: “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”
- “TX”
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