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View from the Window at Le Gras is one of Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photographs, circa 1826, in the Harry Ransom Center

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Texas is the second most populous (after California) and the second-largest of the 50 U.S. states (after Alaska) in the United States of America, and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States. Geographically located in the south central part of the country, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and borders the U.S. states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has a growing population of over 26.4 million residents (July 2013).

See also

• Waco siege
• Kimbell Art Museum
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Namesakes

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper