
Texas, is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also called the Lone Star State. Austin is the state capital. Texas, the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spans 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2) and has a growing population of 23.9 million. While Houston has the state's biggest population from a individial city standpoint, the Dallas/Fort Worth area ranks as the largest metropolitan statistical area in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. Traveling east to west, the landscape of Texas gradually evolves from that of the Deep South into that of the desert Southwest, going from piney woods to semi-forests of oak and cross timbers, into rolling plains and prairie, then finally to desert in the Big Bend. These wide open s...
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