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Texas has two global cities as Houston and Dallas hold the title of "Gamma World City" by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC).
Ranked by population of cities (incorporated municipalities), the five largest cities in Texas are Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Fort Worth. Texas is the only state to have three cities with populations exceeding 1 million (California has two, no other state has more than one)--Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas, which are also among the 10 largest cities of the United States. Austin and Fort Worth are in the top 20 largest US cities.
Some cities not listed are still considered important on the basis of other factors and issues, including culture, economics, heritage, and politics.
|
Texas
rank |
U.S.
rank |
City
|
Population
|
Region
|
|
1
|
4
|
Houston
|
2,012,626
|
Southeast Texas
|
|
2
|
8
|
San Antonio
|
1,236,249
|
Central Texas
|
|
3
|
9
|
Dallas
|
1,210,393
|
North Texas
|
|
4
|
16
|
Austin
|
681,804
|
Central Texas
|
|
5
|
19
|
Fort Worth
|
603,337
|
North Texas
|
Metropolitan areas
Texas has 25 metropolitan areas (MSAs) defined by the United States Census Bureau. The two largest are ranked among the top 10 United States metropolitan areas. In 2003, the U.S. Census introduced "metropolitan divisions" within some metropolitan areas. Texas has two metropolitan divisions within the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington MSA.
The following table lists population figures for those metropolitan areas, in rank of population. Population figures are as of the 2003 U.S. Census estimates.
| Rank | Metropolitan Area | Metropolitan Division | Population |
| 1 | Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington | 5,589,670 | |
| Dallas–Plano–Irving | 3,739,509 | ||
| Fort Worth–Arlington | 1,850,161 | ||
| 2 | Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown | 5,075,733 | |
| 3 | San Antonio | 1,820,719 | |
| 4 | Austin–Round Rock | 1,377,633 | |
| 5 | El Paso | 705,436 | |
| 6 | McAllen–Edinburg–Mission | 635,540 | |
| 7 | Corpus Christi | 406,830 | |
| 8 | Beaumont–Port Arthur | 382,629 | |
| 9 | Brownsville–Harlingen | 363,092 | |
| 10 | Killeen–Temple | 343,329 | |
| 11 | Lubbock | 257,188 | |
| 12 | Odessa–Midland | 241,316 | |
| 13 | Amarillo | 233,231 | |
| 14 | Waco | 219,807 | |
| 15 | Laredo | 213,615 | |
| 16 | Longview–Marshall | 198,155 | |
| 17 | College Station–Bryan | 192,603 | |
| 18 | Tyler | 184,015 | |
| 19 | Abilene | 158,488 | |
| 20 | Wichita Falls | 149,653 | |
| 21 | Texarkana | 131,591 | |
| 22 | Sherman–Denison | 115,153 | |
| 23 | Victoria | 112,965 | |
| 24 | San Angelo | 105,270 |