7 Incredible Facts about Texas State thats Amazing

 Texas is one of the States in the United States, and second largest states in America. It is popular said...Everything is big in Texas...

Here are some of the facts about these big states that I like, thanks to BIs compilation:

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Texas has enough crude oil reserves to fill up almost 1,862 Empire State Buildings.

Texas had 12.27 billion barrels of crude oil reserves in 2014, or 515.42 billion gallons. That's 33.7% of US reserves.
The Empire State Building's volume is 37 million cubic feet, or 276,779,000 gallons.
Source: US Energy Information Administration

Texas' total area is nearly twice the size of Germany.

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Texas is the largest state in the contiguous US with a total area of 268,596 square miles — more than 7% of the total US.
Germany's area is 137,847 square miles. 
Source: US Census

There are enough registered machine guns in Texas to arm every student enrolled at Harvard and Dartmouth.

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There are 34,848 registered machine guns in Texas.
There are about 21,000 students enrolled at Harvard and about 6,300 students at Dartmouth.
Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

If Texas were its own country, it would have the 10th highest GDP in the world.

Texas' gross domestic product was $1.59 trillion in 2015. It has a larger GDP than Canada (about $1.55 trillion) and Korea (about $1.4 trillion) but falls short of Brazil ($1.7 trillion)
Over the past 20 years, Texas has become an increasingly important part of the US economy. In 1997, it made up about 6% of the total US GDP; by 2014, it was over 9%.
Source: World Bank

There are more than 1.5 million undocumented immigrants in Texas. That's more than the population of San Diego.

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Undocumented immigrants in Texas made up 6.3% of the population and 8.9% of the workforce in 2012.The population of San Diego is an estimated 1,394,928. It is the eighth most populated city in the US.
Source: The Washington Post

 

 

From 2010 to 2015, Texas' population increased by an amount more than the current populations of New Hampshire and Wyoming.

Delegates from Texas at the 2016 Republican National Convention.Jeff Swensen/Getty

In 2010, Texas' population was 25.1 million. The June 2015 estimate for its population was 27.5 million.
For 2015, New Hampshire's estimated population was 1.3 million, and Wyoming's was 586,000.
Source: US Census

Texas is building 175 times as many buildings as Rhode Island.

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In 2015, there were 175,443 building permits in Texas.
In 2015, there were 998 building permits in Rhode Island.
Source: US Census


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