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Texas Facts
Admission to
Statehood: December 29, 1845
Bird: Mockingbird
Border States: Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma
Flower: Bluebonnet
Highest Point: Guadalupe Peak; 8,749 feet, 14th
Largest Cities: Houston Dallas San Antonio Austin El Paso
Fort Worth Arlington Corpus Christi Plano Garland
Motto: Friendship
Nickname: Lone Star State
Origin of state's name: Based on a word used by Caddo Indians
meaning "friends"
Tree: Pecan Tree
Texas Metro Areas
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Abilene
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Amarillo
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Austin – Round Rock
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Beaumont – Port Arthur
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Brownsville – Harlingen
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College Station – Bryan
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Corpus Christi
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Dallas – Fort Worth – Arlington
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El Paso
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Houston – Sugar Land – Baytown
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Killeen – Temple – Fort Hood
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Laredo
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Longview
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Lubbock
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McAllen – Edinburg – Mission
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Midland – Odessa MSA
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San Angelo
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San
Antonio
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Sherman – Denison
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Texarkana
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Tyler
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Victoria
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Waco
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Wichita Falls
Texas
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