Facts I find interesting about Texas (edit/delete)

• Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. The population of Texas is 22 million, not including the 16 million cattle.The armadillo is the official state mammal. 
   
• 70% of the population of Texas lives within 200 miles of Austin.
  
• The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. 
  
• Texas possesses three of the Top Ten most populous cities in the U.S. - Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
  
• Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies.
  
• Texas' most populous county is Harris county with 3.4 million residents in Houston. The least populated county is Loving county with 67 residents.
  
• Jalapeno pepper jelly originated in Lake Jackson and was first marketed in 1978.
  
• 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. For example, Arizona 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 for 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.
   
• More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state.
  
• Amarillo has the world's largest helium well.

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