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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.
The large size of Texas and its location at the intersection of multiple climate zones gives the state highly variable weather. The Panhandle of the state has colder winters than North Texas, while the Gulf Coast has mild winters. Texas has wide variations in precipitation patterns.
The location of the State of Texas in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Texas: Texas – second-most populous and the second-most extensive of the 50 states of the United States of America. Texas borders Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the South Central United States.
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
Location Coordinates American Samoa: North of Manu’a District (EEZ) Eastern District (Tutuila center) The geographic center of American Samoa’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is located in the Pacific Ocean, about 35.08 miles (56.45 km) northeast of the island of Ta‘ū. [11]
The headquarters of the Lone Star College System are located in The Woodlands and in unincorporated Montgomery County, Texas. [115] The district moved to its current location on March 17, 2003. [116] Our Lady of the Lake University, a private non-profit university based in San Antonio, moved its Houston Campus to The Woodlands in 2011.
Texas would eventually be admitted as a U.S. state in 1845. [32] The official West and East South Central states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee would secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Kentucky was a border state that remained with the Union.
Gunn Lake, on the Texas border near the AR-OK-TX tripoint 35°23′37″N 94°25′52″W / 35.39361°N 94.43111°W / 35.39361; -94.43111 ( OK-easternmost point, Sequoyah County Arkansas border on the Arkansas River east of Moffett