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Texas: Cities

Over a million (metropolitan) wholly in Texas

Name Metro population (millions)1
Austin2 1.939
Dallas3 6.948
Houston4 5.988
San Antonio 1.952

Over a million (metropolitan) with the largest city in México

Name Metro population (millions)5
Juárez-El Paso 2.345
Matamoros-Brownsville 1.137
Reynosa-McAllen 1.846

Selected smaller cities

Corpus Christi,6 is located mostly in Nueces County, Texas on the south shore of the bay of the same name7 and has a metropolitan population of 416 thousand,8 with 324 thousand within the city.9 It is an important grain port.10

The East Texas Oil Field is partly in the metropolitan counties of Tyler (metropolitan population: 243 thousand;8 city: 104 thousand9), and partly in the metropolitan counties of Longview (metropolitan population: 267 thousand;8 city: 82 thousand9). The Haynesville-Bossier Shale, a natural gas source, is also located in the metropolitan counties of Longview. The shale deposits also extend into Louisiana, and into the county that includes Nacogdoches (population 33 thousand11). All three cities are located in eastern Texas within river basins that drain into Sabine Lake.12

The metropolitan counties of Amarillo (metropolitan population: 242 thousand;8 city: 199 thousand9) include part of Palo Duro Canyon, a tourist attraction,13 and a part of the Hogoton-Panhandle Gas Field, which also extends into rural Texas counties and into Oklahoma and Kansas. Amarillo is located in the 'panhandle' of northern Texas.

center is a row of car chasses, covered in multi-colored graffiti, each embedded nearly vertically in cleared light brown dirt, and receding at a slight angle from left to right; the background is a dark brown stubble field, with a thin line of buildings and trees at the horizon, and a gray-blue cloudy sky
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

The Spraberry Trend, an oil field, is partly in the counties of the Midland-Odessa metropolitan area (population: 252 thousand;8 Midland: 133 thousand;9 Odessa: 119 thousand9), and partly in rural counties. The cities are located in western Texas, east of the southeastern corner of New Mexico.

Name
Brownsville: see Matatmoros-Brownsville
El Paso: see Juárez-El Paso
Fort Worth: see Dallas
Galveston: see Houston
McAllen: see Reynosa-McAllen

Footnotes

1. world-gazetteer.com, acessed 2/6/2013, for Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.
2. Austin-Round Rock is the name of the Metropolitan Statistical Area.
3. Dallas-Fort Worth is the name of the Consolidated Statistical Area.
4. Houston-Baytown-Huntsville is the name of the Consolidated Statistical Area. Galveston is part of this metropolitan area.
5. Juárez-El Paso and Matamoros-Brownsville are from "Metropolitan areas in the Americas". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved by the author of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_areas_of_Mexico on 8 December 2009, accessed May 15, 2018. The Wikipedia heading says the figure is for 2006, which matches the cited source, but the column heading says 2012. Reynosa-McAllen is from world-gazetteer.com, acessed 2/6/2013.
6. Named after the Christian term that means body of Christ in English.
7. Corpus Christi Bay is an extension of the Gulf of Mexico, which is side body of the Atlantic Ocean.
8. 2012 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_statistical_areas, accessed May 15, 2018.
9. 2013 figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Texas#100_largest_cities_in_Texas_by_population, accessed May 15, 2018.
10. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.
11. 2010 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacogdoches,_Texas, accessed May 15, 2018.
12. Sabine Lake connects to the Gulf of Mexico by the Sabine Passage.
13. http://www.touropia.com/best-places-to-visit-in-texas/, accessed May 15, 2018.