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City of Houston Planning & Development Department. U.S. Census Bureau maps: 2010 U.S. Census: Maps of the Houston city limits; 2000 U.S. Census: Maps of the Houston city limits; 1990 U.S. Census: See Maps of Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County (each has an index map showing all sections and individual maps for each piece)
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. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
Houston County: 225: Crockett: 1837: Nacogdoches County: Sam Houston (1793–1863), general of the Texan Revolution, commander at the Battle of San Jacinto and later president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator and governor of the state of Texas 22,066: 1,231 sq mi (3,188 km 2) Howard County: 227: Big Spring: 1876: Bexar County
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States.
New York: New York City is a sui generis jurisdiction, in which the city government consists of 5 boroughs each coterminous with a county of the State of New York 58: California: 56: Montana: 55: West Virginia: 53: North Dakota: 46: South Carolina: 44: Idaho: 39: Washington: 36: Oregon: 33: New Mexico: 30: Alaska: Alaska has no counties.