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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.
- 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)
Recent News
Jun. 8, 2023, 10:08 PM ET (AP)
FBI arrests Texas businessman linked to impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton
The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman at the center of the scandal that led to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's historic impeachment, a move that came amid new questions about the men’s dealings raised by financial records the Republican's lawyers made public to try to clear him of bribery allegations
Jun. 8, 2023, 6:29 PM ET (AP)
Elevated walkway collapses in Texas beach city, injuring dozens
Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter
Jun. 8, 2023, 6:04 PM ET (AP)
DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls 'reprehensible'
Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.”
Jun. 8, 2023, 2:42 PM ET (AP)
GM to invest $500 million at plant that makes large SUVs in Arlington, Texas
General Motors said Thursday that it will sink more than $500 million into its Arlington, Texas, assembly plant to get ready for the next generation of big SUVs with internal-combustion engines
Jun. 7, 2023, 11:53 PM ET (AP)
Texas homecoming for Griner in WNBA star's 1st game there since Russian release
Brittney Griner had a Texas homecoming in her first game in her home state since being released from a Russian prison
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 7315 words)