Texas vacations offer the choice of different climate and geological conditions. This is mainly due to its sheer size. Located in the south Central of the United States it is the second largest state with 696,241 km˛. This makes it two and a half times the size of New Zealand.
In the south Texas is fringed by the Gulf of Mexico. The Rio Grande in the south west forms a natural boundary to Mexico. New Mexico is the neighbour in the northwest. The borderline to Oklahoma in the north east follows the Sabine River. The east is next to Arkansas and in the south to Louisiana.
The state’s capital is Austin and the largest city is Houston. With a population of 23,904,380 the state takes the second rank within America. Spoken languages are varied English and Spanish are most widely used joined by Vietnamese, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Korean and Tagalog.