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The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] 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.
George Washington Hill, Republic of Texas Secretary of War and Marine, surgeon, and early settler of the area Hondo: Medina: Named for the nearby Hondo Creek. Hondo in Spanish means deep. Houston: Harris: General Sam Houston, commander at the Battle of San Jacinto, and later President of the Republic of Texas and Governor and Senator for the ...
Surat (Gujarati: ) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat directly translates to face in Urdu , Gujarati and Hindi . Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport .
The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 inches (846.67 mm) long in June 1919. [2] The subdivision levels in Texas are as follows: [3]
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by area, after Alaska, and the largest state within the contiguous United States, at 268,820 square miles (696,200 km 2). If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 39th-largest . [ 148 ]
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande , and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico .
Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic.
Alamdar S. Hamdani (born 1971/1972) is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas from December 12, 2022 to January 19, 2025. Early life and education