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NICK NAME | The Lone Star State | |
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CAPITAL CITY | Austin | |
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LARGEST CITY | Houston | |
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SECOND LARGEST CITY | Dallas | |
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LARGEST COUNTY | Harris | |
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AREA | 268,601 sq. miles; 261,914 sq. miles land, 6,687 sq. miles water. Coastline 367 miles (2nd state) Largest state in the Continental USA. | |
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HIGHEST ELEVATION | 8,749 ft., Guadalupe Peake (Culbertson County) | |
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LOWEST POINT | sea level along the Gulf of Mexico | |
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ABBREVIATION | TX (postal); Tex. (traditional) | |
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AREA CODE(S) | 210, 214, 254, 281, 409, 512, 713, 806, 817, 903, 815, 940, 972 | |
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TIME ZONE | Central | |
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PART OF REGION | South; Gulf States; Southwest | |
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ADMISSION DATE | December 29, 1845 (28th State) | |
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LOCATION | In the South-Central United States, bordering the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. | |
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NAME ORIGIN | From the Caddo Indian word teyshas "allies," used by various tribes to refer to their mutual alliances. In the 1540s Spanish explorers took this to be a tribal name, recording ti as Teyas or Tejas. As a name it came to be applied to an area north of the Rio Grande and east of New Mexico, then was officially applied by Spain and Mexico, to the republic that became the state. | |
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STATE BIRD | Mockingbird (Mimus Polyglottos) | |
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STATE FLOWER | Bluebonnet (Lupinus Subcarnosus) | |
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STATE SONG | "Texas, Our Texas", "The Eyes of Texas" | |
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STATE STONE | Topaz | |
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STATE TREE | Pecan | |
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STATE MOTTO | Friendship |
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