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State of Texas
Banner o Texas State seal o Texas
Flag Seal
Nickname(s): The Lone Star State
Motto(s): Friendship
Cairt o the Unitit States wi Texas heichlichtit
Offeecial leid Nae offeecial leid
(see Leids spoken in Texas)
Spoken leids Inglis 68.7%
Spainyie 27.0%[1]
Demonym Texan
Texian (archaic)
Tejano
Caipital Austin
Lairgest ceety Houston
Lairgest metro Dallas–Fort Worth[2]
Aurie Ranked 2nt
 • Tot 268,581[3] sq mi
(696,241 km2)
 • Width 773[4] miles (1,244 km)
 • Lenth 790 miles (1,270 km)
 • % watter 2.5
 • Latitude 25° 50′ N tae 36° 30′ N
 • Longitude 93° 31′ W tae 106° 39′ W
Population Ranked 2nt
 • Tot 25,674,681 (2011 est)[5]
 • Density 98.1/sq mi  (37.9/km2)
Ranked 26t
Elevation
 • Heichest pynt Guadalupe Peak[6][7][8]
8,751 ft (2667.4 m)
 • Mean 1,700 ft  (520 m)
 • Lawest pynt Guwf o Mexico[7]
sea level
Afore statehuid Republic of Texas
Admission to Union 29 December 1845 (28t)
Govrenor Greg Abbott (R)
Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst (R)
Legislatur Texas Legislatur
 • Upper hoose Senate
 • Lawer hoose Hoose o Representatives
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R)
Ted Cruz (R)
U.S. Hoose delegation 23 Republicans, 9 Democrats (leet)
Time zones  
 • maist o state Central: UTC −6/−5
 • tip o Wast Texas Muntain: UTC −7/−6
ISO 3166 US-TX
Abbreviations TX, Tex.
Wabsteid www.texas.gov

Texas is the seicont maist populous an the seicont maist extensive o the 50 states in the Unitit States o Americae, an the maist extensive state o the 48 contiguous Unitit States. The name, based on the Caddo wird tejas meanin "friends" or "allies", wis applee'd bi the Spaingie tae the Caddo thairsels an tae the region o thair dounset in East Texas.[9] Texas haes an aurie o 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), an a growin population of 25.7 million residents.[10]

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  1. ↑ Texas — Languages. MLA. Retrieved April 15, 2010. 
  2. ↑ "Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Estimates". US Census. April 4, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2008. 
  3. ↑ Facts (2008–2009 ed.). Texas Almanac. 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2008. 
  4. ↑ "Environment" (2008–2009 ed.). Texas Almanac. 2008. Archived frae the oreeginal on March 17, 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2008. 
  5. ↑ "Table 1. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015" (CSV). U.S. Census Bureau. December 23, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015. 
  6. ↑ "El Capitan". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Elevations and Distances in the United States". United States Geological Survey. 2001. Retrieved October 24, 2011. 
  8. ↑ Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
  9. ↑ Texas, origin of name Handbook of Texas Online
  10. ↑ "U.S. Census Bureau Announces 2010 Census Population Counts – Apportionment Counts Delivered to President". Press Release. U.S. Census Bureau. December 21, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2011. 

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Coordinates: 31°N 100°W / 31°N 100°W / 31; -100


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