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“If you include the original boundaries of Texas, half of England would be inside that map.”
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Texas is the largest of the contiguous states. Texas is as large as Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and all of New England combined; Connecticut and Rhode Island could almost fit inside Brewster county, the state’s largest county.
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Texas Piney Woods
Big Bend Country
Texas Gulf Coast
The Texas coast is like no other. Stretching about 367 miles as the crow flies along a gentle arc that makes up the northwestern edge of the Gulf of Mexico, there are actually over 3,300 miles of shoreline along its islands, bays and river mouths.
