TEXAS QUICK FACTS Name Texas is based on the Caddo Native American word tejas which means friends State Capital Austin population 931 830 Date of Statehood December 29 1845 28th state Population 27 469 114 2nd most populous state Area Total Land and Water 268 596 square miles 695 660 sq km 2nd largest state Largest City Houston population 2 296 224 Nickname The Lone Star State Motto Friendship State Bird Mockingbird State Flower Bluebonnet TEXAS
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA State Stone Petrified Palmwood State Tree Pecan State Song Texas Our Texas Highest Point Guadalupe Peak 8 749 feet 2 667 m Guadalupe Peak Lowest Point Gulf of Mexico 0 feet 0 m Average July High Temperature 94°F 34°C Gulf of Mexico Record High Temperature 120°F 49°C in Monahans on June 28 1994 Average January Low Temperature 34°F 1°C Record Low Temperature 23°F 31°C in Seminole on February 8 1933 Dwight D Elsenhower Average Annual Precipitation 28 inches 71 cm Number of U S Senators 2 Number of U S Representatives 36 Lyndon Johnson Greetings U S Presidents Born in Texas Dwight D Eisenhower 1890 1969 Lyndon B Johnson 1908 1973 U S Postal Service Abbreviation TX QUICK FACTS
TEXAS GEOGRAPHY Texas covers 268 596 square miles 695 660 sq km of territory second only to Alaska It is in the south central part of the United States It has many kinds of natural environments from the plains of the northern Panhandle to pine forests to the subtropical Lower Rio Grande Valley of the southeast Texas shares a border with New Mexico to the west The Rio Grande forms a river border with Mexico to the south To the north is the state of Oklahoma The Red River makes up much of the Oklahoma border To the east are Arkansas and Louisiana The Sabine River forms most of the border with Louisiana The large crescent shaped part of southeastern Texas borders the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico The Rio Grande forms a river border between Texas and Mexico TEXAS
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OKLAHOMA Amarillo ARKANSAS NEW MEXICO Lubbock Ft Worth Dallas El Paso Abilene TEXAS LOUISIANA Austin Rio Grande San Antonio Houston MEXICO Corpus Christi Texas's total land and water area is 268 596 square miles 695 660 sq km It is the 2nd largest state The state capital is Austin GEOGRAPHY
