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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 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 ...
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.
Portal:Texas/Cities/1. Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. The city covers more than 600 sq mi (1,600 km 2) and is the county seat of Harris County. As of the 2004 U.S. Census estimate, Houston had a total population of more than 2 million.
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
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. [150] It ranks 26th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. Texas is in the south central part of the United ...
Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle recovered a massive hail stone that researchers say is likely to be a new state record. Val and Amy Castor, veteran storm chasers with Oklahoma City ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,777 square miles (4,600 km 2), of which 1,703 square miles (4,410 km 2) is land and 74 square miles (190 km 2) (4.2%) is covered by water. [8] Both its total area and land area are larger than the U.S. state of Rhode Island.