Outline of Texas

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Texas:

Contents

• Geography of Texas
• Places in Texas
• Environment of Texas
• Natural geographic features of Texas
• Regions of Texas
• Administrative divisions of Texas
• Government and politics of Texas
• Executive branch of the government of Texas
• Legislative branch of the government of Texas
• Judicial branch of the government of Texas
• Law and order in Texas
• Military in Texas
• History of Texas
• History of Texas by period
• History of Texas by region
• History of Texas by subject
• Culture of Texas
• The arts in Texas
• Economy and infrastructure of Texas
• Education in Texas
• References

Texas – second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 states of the United States of America. Texas borders Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the South Central United States. The Republic of Texas joined the United States as the 28th state on December 29, 1845, becoming the first, and still the only, independent nation to become a state. Texas joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 but was readmitted to the Union in 1870.