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The data for method 2 is from a list maintained by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management of NOAA. [note 1] The state coastline lengths were computed by an unspecified method that includes tidal areas not included in the first method. [3] These numbers also include the Great Lakes coastlines, which do not have similar tidal areas.
Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.
McAllen-Edinburg, TX Combined Statistical Area: 939,466 7 Baton Rouge, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 858,571 8 Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL Combined Statistical Area: 661,964 9 Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City, LA Combined Statistical Area: 619,529 10 Pensacola-Ferry Pass, FL-AL Combined Statistical Area: 547,784 11
The Southern U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, which border the gulf on the north, are often referred to as the "Third Coast" of the United States (in addition to its Atlantic and Pacific coasts). The Gulf of Mexico took shape approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics. [4]
Texas Coastal Bend illustration bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The Texas Coastal Bend, or just the Coastal Bend, is a geographical region in the US state of Texas. The name refers to the area being a curve along the Texas Gulf Coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The largest city of the Coastal Bend is Corpus Christi.
The Mississippi Arkansas drainage area being a little less than the Ohio River and the basin of the Red River of Louisiana being about half as large. The Mississippi River drains an area of about one-third of the United States. The head of the coastal plain embayment is near the junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast consists of many cities that lie directly on the Mississippi Sound. The U. S. Census Bureau divided the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2003, which previously consisted of the three coastal counties (Hancock; Harrison; Jackson), into two MSAs that included two additional counties (George; Stone).
Galveston Island (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles (80.5 km) southeast of Houston.The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston in Galveston County.