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It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.
The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and equivalent to 21% of the area of the contiguous United States. The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area.
Texas, the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, borders the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. To its southwest lies the country of Mexico, and to the southeast, the Gulf of Mexico. Texas covers a total area of approximately 268,597 mi 2 (695,662 km 2).
Texas covers a total area of 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2). The longest straight-line distance is from the northwest corner of the panhandle to the Rio Grande river just below Brownsville, 801 miles (1,289 km). [1]
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.
Texas is the second biggest state in the United States occupying an area of about 268,581 square miles. The state has an average length of about 790 miles and a width of approximately 773 miles. It is twice as large as Japan or Germany and 10% bigger than France.
There are six main geographic areas in Texas: East Texas, the Gulf Coast, the Rio Grande Valley, the Blackland Prairies, the High Plains and West Texas. In the south, the Gulf Coast Plain meets the Gulf of Mexico. The North Central Plains slope upward creating some hills.
Texas is enormous, but it’s hard sometimes to put its size in perspective: just listing the distance from, say, El Paso to Beaumont (824 miles!), and noting how it compares with the distance ...
Texas, State, southwestern U.S. Area: 268,597 sq mi (695,662 sq km). Population: (2020) 29,145,505; (2023 est.) 30,503,301. Capital: Austin. Texas is the second largest state in both area and population.
The state of Texas is actually so large that it is bigger than some countries in Europe and Asia in terms of its area. In fact, the state of Texas is twice the size of the country of Germany. The state of Texas is also 10% larger than the European country of France, too.