Texas is a place that really likes sports, such as football. The Dallas Cowboys are the only professional football team in all of Texas. There are a lot of professional basketball teams in Texas; they are the Dallas Maverics, Houston Rockets, and the San Antonio Spurs- and that's just professional!
Texas' travel industry is very good. It gives them an average of about $40 million a year. 485,000 Texans work in travel related industries. There are about 130 state parks and Recreation areas that attract a total of more than 21 million people annually.
Texas is a very populous place. Back in the 2000 census, Texas had more than 20 million inhabitants. Which is the second most populous state. It sure would not be rare to see white people in Texas. About 71% of all people in Texas are white people. Houston is the city with the most people in Texas, with almost 2 million people! Houston is leaving Austin, the capital, far behind in 4th place and with only 660,000 people.
If you like snow, you shouldn't go to Houston, with only 0.4 inches of snow a year. If you like rain though you should go to Houston, with forty-eight inches of precipitation a year! Both El Paso and Houston are warm. El Paso gets warmer in July than Houston does, but it gets a lot colder in January than Houston.
Texas has a large amount of road length and other ways of transportation. The total public road length is 301,034 miles; the highway system road length is 13,435 miles. The length of the railroad tracks is 10,649 miles; there are 1280 airports, and 396 heliports in Texas during year 2000.
Those are some interesting facts about Texas. There are probably more basketball teams than you thought there was. A lot of other things you probably didn't know were in this report about Texas.
