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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Popular Destinations
Austin
Austin is a city of over 960,000 people on the southeast edge of the Hill Country region of Texas, making it the fourth-largest city in the state. Photo: boltron, CC BY-SA 2.0.Dallas
Dallas, 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. Photo: Cordphaeton, CC BY-SA 3.0.Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex is a large area in the Prairies and Lakes region of Texas. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.- Type: State
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: United States, North America
- Neighbors: Arkansas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Louisiana, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Oklahoma and Tamaulipas
Destinations
Prairies and Lakes
The Prairies and Lakes Region is located in the north central part of Texas. Photo: Troy34, CC BY-SA 4.0.Gulf Coast
Texas' Gulf Coast stretches for hundreds of miles, from the Louisiana border to Brownsville on the Rio Grande. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.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. Photo: Leaflet, CC BY-SA 3.0.Hill Country
The Hill Country is a region of the state of Texas in the United States of America. Photo: David Leo Veksler, CC BY 2.0.Big Bend Country
The Big Bend is part of the Trans-Pecos region in southwestern Texas, United States along the border with Mexico, north of the prominent bend in the Rio Grande for which the region is named. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Piney Woods
The Piney Woods is the name of the region encompassing east and northeast Texas. Photo: Troy34, CC BY-SA 4.0.South Texas Plains
Texas's southern region is, for the most part, a forbidding desert area. Photo: Troy34, CC BY-SA 4.0.Texas
Latitude of center
31.2639° or 31° 15' 50" northLongitude of center
-98.5456° or 98° 32' 44" westPopulation
22,900,000Elevation
1,834 feet (559 metres)Abbreviation
TXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9286798509GeoNames ID
4736286Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Tiksas
- Afar: Texas shtati
- Afrikaans: Texas
- Albanian: Teksasi
- Albanian: Texas
- Amharic: ቴክሳስ
- Arabic: Texas
- Arabic: تكساس
- Aragonese: Texas
- Aramaic: ܬܟܣܐܣ
- Armenian: Թեքսաս
- Armenian: Տեխաս
- Asturian; Bable: Texas
- Aymara: Texas suyu
- Azerbaijani: Texas
- Bashkir: Техас
- Basque: Texas
- Bavarian: Texas
- Belarusian: Тэксас
- Belarusian: Тэхас
- Belarusian: Штат Тэхас
- Bengali: টেক্সাস
- Bhojpuri: टेक्सास
- Bihari : टेक्सास
- Bishnupriya: টেক্সাস
- Bislama: Texas
- Bosnian: TX
- Bosnian: Teksas
- Bosnian: Texas
- Breton: Texas
- Bulgarian: Тексас
- Burmese: တက္ကဆပ်ပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: Texas
- Cebuano: Texas
- Central Bicolano: Texas
- Central Kurdish: تێکساس
- Chavacano: Texas
- Chechen: Техас
- Cherokee: ᏅᏓᎩ
- Cheyenne: Toháano'ého'ëva
- Cheyenne: Toháanoéhoëva
- Chinese: Texas
- Chinese: 孤星州
- Chinese: 得克萨斯州 / 德克薩斯州 / 德薩斯州
- 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
- Church Slavic: Тєѯасъ
- Chuvash: Техас
- Cornish: Teksas
- Corsican: Texas
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Tehas
- Croatian: Teksas
- Czech: State of Texas
- Czech: Texas
- Danish: Texas
- Dimli: Teksas
- Dimli: Texas
- Dutch: Texas
- Eastern Mari: Техас
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: تكساس
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: Tèxas
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Texas
- English: Lone Star State
- English: State of Texas
- English: TX
- English: Tex.
- English: Texas, United States
- English: US-TX
- Esperanto: Solstela Ŝtato
- Esperanto: TX
- Esperanto: Teksaso
- Esperanto: Ŝtato Teksaso
- Estonian: Texas
- Faroese: Texas
- Fijian Hindustani: Texas
- Finnish: Teksas
- Finnish: Texas
- Franco-Provençal: Tèxas
- French: Texas
- Frisian: Teksas
- Gaelic (Scots): Texas
- Gagauz: Teksas
- Gallegan: Texas
- Gallegan: تگزاس
- Georgian: ტეხასი
- German: TX
- German: Texas
- German: US-TX
- Gilaki: تگزاس
- Gorontalo: Texas
- Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃𐌰𐍃
- Greek: Τέξας
- Guarani: Texas
- Gujarati: ટેક્સસ
- Gujarati: ટેક્સાસ
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Teksas
- Hakka Chinese: Tet-khiet-sat-sṳ̂
- Hakka Chinese: Texas
- Hausa: Kekeka
- 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: TX
- Indonesian: Texas, Amerika Serikat
- Indonesian: Texas
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Texas
- Interlingue: Texas
- Inuktitut: ᑖᒃᓵᔅ
- Inupiaq: Texas
- Irish: Texas
- Italian: Texas
- Japanese: テキサス州
- Javanese: Texas
- Kabiyé: Tɛkɩzasɩ
- Kabyle: Texas
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Теексәс
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Техас
- Kannada: ಟೆಕ್ಸಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Texas shtati
- Kazakh: Техас
- Kazakh: техас
- Korean: 텍사스
- Korean: 텍사스 주
- Korean: 텍사스주
- Kurdish: Teksas
- Ladino: Texas
- Lao: Texas
- Latin: Texia
- Latvian: Teksasa
- Letzeburgesch: Texas
- Ligurian: Texas
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Texas
- Lithuanian: Teksasas
- Lojban: teksys
- Lombard: Texas
- Low German; Low Saxon: Texas
- Macedonian: Тексас
- Maithili: टेक्सस
- Malagasy: Texas
- Malay (generic): Texas
- Malayalam: ടെക്സസ്
- Manipuri: ꯇꯦꯛꯁꯥꯁ
- Manx: Texas
- Maori: Texas
- Marathi: टेक्सास
- Mazanderani: تگزاس
- Min Dong Chinese: Texas
- Min Nan Chinese: Tek-chiu
- Min Nan Chinese: Texas
- Mingrelian: ტეხასი
- Mongolian: Техас
- Mongolian: ꯇꯦꯛꯁꯥꯁ
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: طيكساس
- Nauru: Texas
- Navajo: Akałii Bikéyah
- Nepali: टेक्सस
- Nepali: तेक्सास
- Newari: टेक्सास
- Newari: तेक्सास
- Northern Frisian: Texas
- Northern Luri: تئگزاس
- Northern Luri: تگزاس
- Northern Sami: Texas
- Norwegian: Texas
- Norwegian Bokmål: TX
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tex.
- Norwegian Bokmål: Texas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Texas
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Tèxas
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Техас
- Pali: टेक्सास
- Pampanga: Texas
- Panjabi: ਟੈਕਸਸ
- Papiamento: Teksas
- Persian: تگزاس
- Picard: Texas
- Piemontese: Texas
- Polish: Teksas
- Portuguese: Texas
- Pushto: تکزاس
- Quechua: Texas suyu
- Raeto-Romance: Texas
- Romanian: Texas
- Russia Buriat: Техас
- Russian: Тексас
- Russian: Техас
- Russian: Штат Одинокой звезды
- Russian: Штат Техас
- Sanskrit: टेक्सास्
- Santali: ᱴᱮᱠᱥᱟᱥ
- Sardinian: Texas
- Saterfriesisch: Texas
- Schwyzerdütsch: Texas
- Scots: Texas
- Serbian: Тексас
- Serbo-Croatian: Texas
- Sicilian: Texas
- Sindhi: ٽيڪساس
- Sinhalese: ටෙක්සාස්
- Skolt Sami: Texas
- Slovak: Texas
- Slovenian: Teksas
- Somali: Texas
- Sorbian, Lower: Texas
- Sorbian, Upper: Texas
- South Azerbaijani: تگزاس
- South Azerbaijani: تگزاس ایالتی
- Spanish: Estado De Texas
- Spanish: Estado de Texas
- Spanish: Estado de la Estrella Solitaria
- Spanish: TX
- Spanish: Tejas
- Spanish: Texas
- Spanish: Texas, Estados Unidos
- Swahili (generic): Texas
- Swedish: Texas
- Tagalog: Teksas
- Tagalog: Texas
- Tajik: Тексас
- Tajik: Техас
- Tamil: டெக்சஸ்
- Tatar: Техас
- Telugu: టెక్సస్
- Thai: รัฐเทกซัส
- Thai: รัฐเท็กซัส
- Tibetan: ཋེག་ཟ་སི།
- Tosk Albanian: Texas
- Turkish: Teksas
- Turkmen: Tehas
- Uighur: Téksas Shitati
- Ukrainian: TX
- Ukrainian: Техас
- Ukrainian: штат Техас
- Urdu: ٹیکساس
- Uzbek: Texas
- Venetian: Texas
- Vietnamese: TX
- Vietnamese: Texas
- Vietnamese: Tếch-xát
- Vietnamese: Tếch-xớt
- Vlax Romani: Texas
- Volapük: Texas
- Volapük: Täxasän
- Waray (Philippines): Texas
- Welsh: Texas
- Western Mari: Техас
- Western Panjabi: ٹیکساس
- Wu Chinese: 徳克萨斯州
- 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
- Zulu: Texas
- Teksasos
- Tēkiki
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