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The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau. [1] The Republic of Texas joined the United States as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Texas joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 but was readmitted to the Union in 1870.
4a. Piedmont Upland 4b. Piedmont Lowlands 5. Blue Ridge province 5a. Northern section 5b. Southern section 6. Valley and Ridge province 6a. Tennessee section 6b. Middle section 6c. Hudson Valley: 7. St. Lawrence Valley: 7a. Champlain section (dividing line undefined in 1946 map) 7b. Northern section (dividing line undefined in 1946 map) 8 ...
This is a locator map showing Jeff Davis County in Texas. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 16 August 2009, 14:33 (UTC) Source: TexasRegions.svg; Author: TexasRegions.svg: *Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Jeff_Davis_County.svg: Fortguy; derivative work: Fortguy (talk) derivative ...
Texas Association of Regional Councils (24 P) Texas Hill Country (4 C, 67 P) Texas Panhandle (1 C, 29 P) Trans-Pecos (10 P) V. American Viticultural Areas of Texas (8 P)
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.