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Texas
state, United States
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External Websites
- Official Site of Texas, United States
- Jewish Virtual Library - Texas, United States
- Official Tourism Site of Texas, United States
- U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, Since 1776: Texas
- Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Coahuila and Texas
Britannica Websites
Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
Also known as: Lone Star State
Seal of Texas
The state bird of Texas is the mockingbird.
Texas' state flower is the bluebonnet.
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Geography & Travel
- Capital:
- Austin
- Population:
- (2020) 29,145,505; (2022 est.) 30,029,572
- Governor:
- Greg Abbott (Republican)
- Date Of Admission:
- Dec. 29, 1845
- U.S. Senators:
- John Cornyn (Republican) Ted Cruz (Republican)
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Texas, constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 28th state of the union in 1845. Texas occupies the south-central segment of the country and is the largest state in area except for Alaska. The state extends nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from north to south and about the same distance from east to west. Water delineates many of its borders. The wriggling course of the Red River makes up the eastern two-thirds of Texas’s boundary with Oklahoma to the north, while the remainder of the northern boundary is the Panhandle, which juts northward, forming a counterpart ...(100 of 7369 words)