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Arlington Information:
Arlington is in Tarrant county. Area zipcodes, with demographic data: 76001 76002 76003 76004 76005 76006 76007 76010 76011 76012 76013 76014 76015 76016 76017 76018 76019 76094 76096
Arlington area code: 817
Arlington latitude and longitude: 32.7359, 97.1076
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The Republic of Texas achieved its independence from Mexico in 1836,
the same year as the famous siege of the Alamo in which pioneers Jim
Bowie and Davy Crockett were slain. The "Lone Star State" was the 28th
state to join the Union, admitted in 1845. The name Texas is a Spanish
name, which comes from an Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies."
Texas is the second-largest state in the Union in area, after Alaska.
Although it has a wild, frontier history, today Texas is a major
producer of oil and has important centers of industry and finance. A
Texas state historian has said that the state flower, the bluebonnet,
"is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland."
Copyright: Library of Congress and CIA Fact Book.
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