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Texas (/ ˈ t ɛ k s ə s /, also locally / ˈ t ɛ k s ɪ z / American Spanish: ), officially the State of Texas, is a state in the South Central Region of the United States. It is the second largest US state by total area (after Alaska) with 268,596 sq mi (695,662 km 2) and population (after California) with nearly 29 million people as of 2019.
The Republic of Texas (Spanish: República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. It shared borders with Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande (another Mexican breakaway republic), and the United States of America
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
Austin, the southernmost state capital of the contiguous 48 states, is located in Central Texas on the Colorado River. Austin is 146 miles (230 km) northwest of Houston, [57] 182 miles (290 km) south of Dallas [58] and 74 miles (120 km) northeast of San Antonio.
Texas is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest.
2 days ago · Texas, constituent state of the U.S. It became the 28th state of the union in 1845. It is bordered on the north by Oklahoma, on the northeast by Arkansas, on the east by Louisiana, on the south by Mexico, and on the west by New Mexico.
Texas – second-most populous and the second-most extensive of the 50 states of the United States of America. Texas borders Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the South Central United States. Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau.
