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The population of Texas is 20 million, not including the 16 million cattle.
70% of the population of Texas lives within 200 miles of Austin.
Texas possesses three of the Top Ten most populous cities in the U.S. - Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
Texas has 215 cities with a population of 10,000 or more.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents, 5,221,801, than 31 U.S. states. Arizona, for instance, has about 5.1 million residents.
Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.
El Paso, Texas is closer to Needles, California (516 miles) than it is to Dallas, Texas (571 miles)
Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles. Connecticut (5,544 Sq Mi), Delaware (2,489 Sq Mi) and Rhode Island (1,545 Sq Mi) can fit inside this county.
The King Ranch itself near Corpus Christi is larger than the state of Rhode Island and includes 50,000 head of cattle.
Texas possesses 23,292 farms with 1,000 acres or more with a total of 132 million acres, or 80% of the state land area,
Texas has 90 mountains a mile or more high, with Guadalupe Peak in West Texas at 8,751 feet being the tallest.
Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national and five state forests.
Average yearly rainfall totals in West Texas are less than 8 inches while in East Texas totals exceed 56 inches. Texas climate statistics and weather extremes
The average January temperature for Amarillo is 36.7 degrees while in Brownsville the average is 61.4. On March 27, 1984, the temperature in Brownsville was 106 degrees while Amarillo reported snow and 35 degrees
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