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The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
SVG map of the Great Plains (shaded in green), focusing on its placement within United States borders. The 100th meridian west is marked in red. ... Meridian labeled ...
The term "Great Plains", for the region west of about the 96th meridian west and east of the Rocky Mountains, was not generally used before the early 20th century. Nevin Fenneman's 1916 study Physiographic Subdivision of the United States [6] brought the term Great Plains into more widespread
For the most part, there's no consensus on which region Texas actually belongs. And if you ask a Texan, there's a good chance they'll say, "Texas is Texas." ... Panhandle and South Plains: Great ...
File:Blank_US_Map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2009-11-05T19:44:02Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (91518 Bytes) minor fix from previous upload 2009-11-05T19:39:42Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (88399 Bytes) Fixed up the borders so they are connected with each state and loosing that gap between them.
The adjoining forests in Canada are generally referred to as the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone or the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Forest Region. 32 Texas Blackland Prairies; 33 East Central Texas Plains; 34 Western Gulf Coastal Plain; 36 Ouachita Mountains; 37 Arkansas Valley; 38 Boston Mountains; 39 Ozark Highlands; 51 North Central Hardwood Forests ...