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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 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.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in 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 ...
It has since increased from 39,000 to 82,000 since 2000. It is home to companies such as Weatherford and Aggreko. It is the closest suburb to Downtown Houston and the Texas Medical Center (about 10 miles (16 km) away), which attracts professionals from the oil, gas, energy, medical and aerospace industries.
George Washington Hill, a secretary of war and secretary of the navy under the Republic of Texas 38,101: 962 sq mi (2,492 km 2) Hockley County: 219: Levelland: 1876: Bexar County: George Washington Hockley (1802–1854), Chief of Staff of the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution and secretary of war of the Republic of Texas 21,460: 908 sq mi ...
Area; system unit code (alternative) QID symbol or abbrev. notes sample default conversion combinations SI: square kilometre: km2 Q712226: km 2: US spelling: square kilometer 1.0 km 2 (0.39 sq mi)
Texas rank U.S. rank Metropolitan area Metropolitan division Population (2023 est.) 1 4 Dallas–Fort Worth 8,100,037: 2 5 Houston 7,510,253: 3 24 San Antonio 2,703,999: 4 26 Austin 2,473,275: 5 65 McAllen 898,471: 6 68 El Paso 873,331: 7 110 Killeen-Temple 501,333: 8 121 Corpus Christi 448,323: 9 127 Brownsville-Harlingen 426,710: 10 140
In 1840, the Republic of Texas altered the city charter for Houston, dividing it into four wards. Historically the wards reflected geographic boundaries, without consideration of the population density within the wards. [2] Houston's municipal charter of 1840 recognized a square area of 9 square miles, which was divided into four wards.