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Greater Houston facts for kids

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Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States. It is made up of nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas. With a population of 6,997,384 people as of 2018 census estimates and over 7 million in 2019, Greater Houston is the second-most populous in Texas after the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Images for kids

  • Houston by Sentinel-2, 2020-09-30 (small version)

    Satellite picture of Greater Houston

  • USstcou2010 HOUSTON

    Location in the U.S. (red)

  • FortBend 379

    Imperial Sugar offices in Sugar Land, Texas

  • Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting

    Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting at the University of Houston

  • RF - Houston West Loop South.1

    Interstate 610 in Uptown Houston

  • METRORail 4

    METRORail in downtown Houston

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