Dallas

Dallas, mostly in Dallas County, developed as a rail transport hub (later supplemented by freeways) located at the border between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Interior Plain in northern Texas, United States of America. The city proper, on the Trinity River, is in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, while its near neighbor, Fort Worth, is in the Osage Plains. The metropolitan area that includes both cities has a population of 6.948 million.¹ Dallas has 1.379 million residents and Fort Worth 833 thousand.² The tallest building is the Bank of America Plaza (921 feet, 1985). Some other buildings include: the Fountain Place (720 feet, 1986), whose shape the architect described as "geometry pursued with rigor." Based on the diagonal of a double square, it is a subtractive form, "what's left after carving into a square prism"; the Reunion Tower, a 560 foot observation tower (1978); the Dallas County Administration Building (1901), formerly the Texas Book Depository, from which a U.S. president was shot; and the domed Dallas Hall (1915) of Southern Methodist University.³ The city is a tourist destination.⁴ Underlying the metropolitan area, mostly west of Dallas County, is the Barnett Shale, an important reserve of natural gas.⁵ The urban area is served by the Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport, located in and near four suburbs. It is one of the nation's busiest.⁶

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Overview of Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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1. 2012 metropolitan figure from world-gazetteer.com, accessed February 6, 2013. Another similar 2012 figure of 6.360 million is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_statistical_areas, accessed May 15, 2018.
2. 2013 figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Texas#100_largest_cities_in_Texas_by_population, accessed May 15, 2018.
3. Information about buildings comes from emporis.com, accessed June 11, 2018. The Bank of America Plaza's base is in a sunken plaza, so the base to top height is 939 feet.
4. http://www.touropia.com/best-places-to-visit-in-texas/, accessed May 15, 2018.
5. Listed in the second section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields, accessed May 18, 2018.
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_States. First table. My criteria for inclusion did not exclude any in TX (> 10M passengers, 2017). Accessed May 15, 2018. The four cities are Grapevine (population 50 thousand); Irving (237 thousand); Euless (54 thousand) and Coppell (41 thousand). Populations for Irving and Euless are 2013 figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Texas#100_largest_cities_in_Texas_by_population, accessed May 15, 2018; that for Euless is a 2013 estimate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine,_Texas, accessed May 18, 2018; and that for Coppell is a 2016 estimate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppell,_Texas, accessed May 18, 2018.