Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest, and has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.
In 2020, the total estimated population was almost 30 million people, which puts it as the second-largest U.S. state by both area (after Alaska) and population (after California).