Texas
Texas is a US state in the South, admitted to the Union in 1845. Its capital is Austin, and it goes by the nickname "the Lone Star State". The USPS abbreviation is TX.
Its geographic centre sits at 31.48° N, 99.33° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »Texas was an independent republic for nearly a decade before joining the Union.
- »It is the only state to have been under six different national flags.
- »Its power grid is largely separate from the rest of the country.
Texas touches four neighbours. Taking each direction from one centre to the other and measuring the boundary they share: Oklahoma north, 1,272 km, New Mexico northwest, 871 km, Louisiana east, 442 km and Arkansas northeast, 124 km. The longest of those runs is with Oklahoma.
Austin was chosen in 1839 and named for Stephen F. Austin. It sits on the Colorado River of Texas, a different river from the one that carved the Grand Canyon.
688,715 km² (265,914 sq mi), 2nd largest of 50 states by land area.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Myanmar.
The Lone Star Flag was the national flag of the Republic of Texas before statehood. Texas law sets out the colours' meanings: blue for loyalty, white for purity, red for bravery.