Brownsville, Texas

**Brownsville** is a city in the southern tip of Texas. As of 2020, 186,738 people lived there.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Brownsville, Texas
- **settlement type**: City
- **image skyline**: Brownsville Skyline.jpg
- **imagesize**: 280px
- **image caption**: Images from left to right, top to bottom: Cameron County Courthouse, Reynaldo G. Garza & Filemon B. Vela Courthouse, Cameron County Administrative Building, Port of Brownsville, Brownsville Metro, Texas Southmost College, U.S. Post Office, Villa del Sol Apartments, Market Square, Resaca, Hotel El Jardin, Lone Star National Bank Tower
- **nickname**: Chess Capital of Texas
- **motto**: "On the Border, By the Sea, and Beyond!"
- **image map**: Cameron County Brownsville Highlighted.svg
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Location in Texas
- **pushpin map**: USA Texas#USA
- **pushpin label**: Brownsville
- **pushpin relief**: yes
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: United States
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Texas, County
- **subdivision name1**: Texas
- **subdivision name2**: Cameron County, Texas, Cameron
- **established title**: Founded
- **established date**: 1848
- **established title1**: Incorporated
- **established date1**: February 7, 1853
- **named for**: Fort Brown, named for Jacob Brown (Texas soldier), Jacob Brown
- **government type**: Council-manager government, Council-manager
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader title1**: City Council
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total km2**: 376.03
- **area total sq mi**: 145.19
- **area land km2**: 340.66
- **area land sq mi**: 131.53
- **area water km2**: 35.37
- **area water sq mi**: 13.66
- **area water percent**: 4
- **area metro km2**: 905.76
- **area metro sq mi**: 370.58
- **area blank1 title**: Combined statistical area, CSA
- **elevation m**: 10
- **elevation ft**: 33
- **population total**: 186738
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population density km2**: 548.2
- **population urban**: 216,444 (US: List of United States urban areas, 176th)
- **population density urban sq mi**: 3,485.3
- **population metro**: 421,017 (US: List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 128th)
- **population density metro sq mi**: 472.5
- **population blank1 title**: Combined statistical area, CSA
- **population blank1**: 441,181 (US: List of Combined Statistical Areas, 94th)
- **population blank2 title**: Combined statistical area, CSA density
- **population demonym**: Brownsvillian
- **postal code type**: ZIP Codes
- **postal code**: 78520–78523, 78526
- **area code**: Area code 956, 956
- **footnotes**: β.   Urban population/density as of the 2020 Census.
- **leader title2**: City Manager
- **timezone**: North American Central Time Zone, CST
- **utc offset**: −6
- **timezone dst**: North American Central Time Zone, CDT
- **utc offset dst**: −5
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 48-10768
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature ID
- **blank1 info**: 1372749
- **blank2 name**: Airport
- **blank2 info**: Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport KBRO (BRO)