Cities and Towns
See also: List of cities in Texas, List of counties in Texas, List of Texas metropolitan areas, and List of cities in Texas by populationThe state has three cities with populations exceeding one million: Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas. These three rank among the 10 most populous cities of the United States. As of 2000, six Texas cities had populations greater than 500,000 people. Austin, Fort Worth, and El Paso are among the 25 largest U.S. cities. Texas has four metropolitan areas with populations greater than a million: Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, San Antonio–New Braunfels, and Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos. The Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston metropolitan areas number about 6.3 million and 5.7 million residents, respectively.
Three interstate highways—I-35 to the west (Dallas–Fort Worth to San Antonio, with Austin in between), I-45 to the east (Dallas to Houston), and I-10 to the south (San Antonio to Houston) define the Texas Urban Triangle region. The region of 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) contains most of the state's largest cities and metropolitan areas as well as 17 million people, nearly 75 percent of Texas's total population. Houston and Dallas have been recognized as beta world cities. These cities are spread out amongst the state. Texas has 254 counties, which is more than any state by 95 (Georgia).
In contrast to the cities, unincorporated rural settlements known as colonias often lack basic infrastructure and are marked by poverty. The office of the Texas Attorney General in 2011 that Texas had about 2,294 colonias and estimates that about 500,000 lived in the colonias. Hidalgo County, as of 2011, has the largest number of colonias. Texas has the largest number of people of all states, living in colonias.
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1 | Houston | Harris | 2,099,451 | Dallas
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| 2 | San Antonio | Bexar | 1,327,407 | ||||||
| 3 | Dallas | Dallas | 1,197,816 | ||||||
| 4 | Austin | Travis | 790,390 | ||||||
| 5 | Fort Worth | Tarrant | 741,206 | ||||||
| 6 | El Paso | El Paso | 649,121 | ||||||
| 7 | Arlington | Tarrant | 365,438 | ||||||
| 8 | Corpus Christi | Nueces | 305,215 | ||||||
| 9 | Plano | Collin | 259,841 | ||||||
| 10 | Laredo | Webb | 236,091 | ||||||
Read more about this topic: Christianity In Texas, Demographics
Famous quotes containing the words cities and, cities and/or towns:
“This is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield but in the cities and the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom.”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)