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The total land area is 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), [1] [11] [12] [2] [3] with cadastral survey data suggesting it may be larger. [13] This makes it the fifth largest island country in the world. [9] Only approximately 1,000 of its islands are populated, and fewer than one-half of these are larger than 2.5 square kilometers (1 sq mi).
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
Greater San Antonio has a number of communities spread out across several counties and regions. It is centered on the city of San Antonio, the second largest city in Texas, second largest city in the Southern United States, [6] and the seventh largest city in the USA, with roughly 1.5 million residents spread across approximately 500 square miles.
The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area, covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2), or 96.3%, is land and 22.3 square miles (58 km 2), or 3.7%, is water. [1] Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome, and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland.
The Austin-San Antonio metroplex is an emerged metropolitan area in the US state of Texas, where the dominant core cities are San Antonio and Austin. This combined metropolitan region, composed of the Greater Austin and Greater San Antonio areas, has approximately 5 million people.
Satellite picture of Greater Houston. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area has a total area of 10,062 square miles (26,060 km 2), of which 8,929 sq mi (23,130 km 2) are land and 1,133 sq mi (2,930 km 2) are covered by water.
The Texas Triangle is a region of Texas that contains the state's five largest cities and is home to over half of the state's population. The Texas Triangle is formed by the state's four main urban centers, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, connected by Interstate 45, Interstate 10, and Interstate 35.
Quezon, east of Metro Manila, is the 8th largest province in the Philippines having an area of 8,989.39 square kilometers (3,470.82 sq mi). [59] It is the largest province of Calabarzon, comprising 879,660 hectares (2,173,700 acres) or 52.13% of the total land area of the region. [ 60 ]