Texas

Texas is the largest State of the United States of America. It is located in the extreme South-West, fronts the Gulf of Mexico for 400 miles between Mexico in the West and Louisiana in the East. It has an area more than twice that of the British Isles, exhibiting a great variety of soil from rich alluvial valleys and pastoral prairies to arid deserts of sand in the South. Climate in the South is semi-tropical, in the North colder and drier. The useful metals are found in abundance, but agriculture and stock-raising are the chief occupations, Texas being the leading cattle-raising and cotton State in the Union. It seceded from the republic of Mexico in 1835, and was an independent State till 1845, when it was annexed to the American Union. Austin is the capital and Galveston the principal port.

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Texas Guinan, Texel, Text to Speech System, Tezcuco, Tezpur