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Texas (i/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
The Texas Triangle is one of eleven so-called megaregions in the United States. These are urban areas that are much greater in scale than just a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), defined by the US Census Bureau. These regions also are known as megapolitan areas. The term comes from the fact that the three main cities in the Texas Triangle are connected by a highway system Interstate 45, Interstate 10, and Interstate 35 that forms up a triangle when connected.
The Texas Triangle in Texas contains 5 of the 20 biggest cities in the US, and is home to more than 70% of all Texans (pop 13.8 million). In the next 40 years, the population of the Texas Triangle will grow more than 65%, or an additional 10 million people, leading to 78% of Texans living and working within the Texas Triangle. From a people point of view, the Triangle increasingly is Texas.
The major cities in the Triangle are Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Fort Worth. Additional MSAs in the region include Bryan-College Station, Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood and Waco. There are a further so-called 12 micropolitan statistical areas. There are 66 counties altogether in the Triangle. Sometimes, however, Beaumont, located east of Houston, has been considered part of the Texas Triangle.
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