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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
This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
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.
For a size comparison, this is what the burn area of the Smokehouse Creek Fire would look like compared to the state of Connecticut: And here's how a 500,000-acre burn area compares with Manhattan:
As of 2023, the largest of these is the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA, encompassing the area around the twin cities of Dallas and Fort Worth in the northern part of the state. Owing to its large area and population - the second-highest amongst the 50 states in both respects [ 2 ] [ 3 ] - Texas contains the most statistical areas of any state.
Texas is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America; ... Area of Texas: 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2) Atlas of Texas; Places in Texas
[7] [8] At 17,207 acres (26.89 sq mi; 69.63 km 2), DFW is the second-largest airport by land area in the United States after Denver International Airport covering an area larger than Manhattan in New York City.
Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with some 30.5 million residents as of 2023, [10] [11] [12] it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic. [13] Spain was the first European country to claim and control Texas.