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- 196 of Texas' 254 counties are classified as rural.
- 85 percent of the state's incorporated cities have fewer than 10,000 residents.
- Rural Texas covers approximately 80 percent of the state's total land area, encompassing 213,297 out of 267,277 square miles.
- Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles.
- The population of rural Texas is higher than the combined populations of Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
- The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
- The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.
- Texas has almost twice as many farms and ranches as any other state and more than double the amount of land acreage in agricultural production.
- Texas is the country's biggest producer of oil, cattle, sheep, minerals and cotton.
- Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other comparable area in North America.
- The Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
- The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos on July 4, 1883.
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