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Dallas, Texas
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City of Dallas
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Tap tae bottom, left to right:
Downtown Dallas
skyline
,
Old Red Museum
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NorthPark Center
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Dallas City Hall
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Dallas Museum of Art
,
Winspear Opera House
,
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
,
State Fair of Texas
at
Fair Park
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Dallas Union Station
, the
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
, an the
American Airlines Center
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Banner
Seal
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Eik-name(s):
Big D
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Location o Dallas in the contiguous Unitit States
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Coordinates:
32°46′33″N
96°47′48″W
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32.77583°N 96.79667°W
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32.77583; -96.79667
Coordinates
:
32°46′33″N
96°47′48″W
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32.77583°N 96.79667°W
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32.77583; -96.79667
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Kintra
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United States
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State
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Texas
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Coonty
| Dallas
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Incorporatit
| 2 Februar 1856
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Coonties
| Dallas
,
Collin
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Denton
,
Rockwall
,
Kaufman
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Govrenment
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? Teep
| Cooncil?Manager
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? Bodi
| Dallas City Council
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Mayor
| Eric Johnson
(D)
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Area
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Ceety
| 999.3 km
2
(385.8 sq mi)
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? Laund
| 881.9 km
2
(340.5 sq mi)
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? Water
| 117.4 km
2
(45.3 sq mi)
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? Urban
| 3,645 km
2
(1407.2 sq mi)
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Elevation
| 131 m (430 ft)
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Population
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Ceety
| 1,300,092
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? Estimate
| 1,300,092
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? Rank
| (US:
9t
)
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? Density
| 1,407/km
2
(3,645/sq mi)
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Urban
| 5,121,892
(
6t
)
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Metro
| 7,102,796
(
4t
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CSA
| 7206144
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7t
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Demonym
| Dallasite
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Time zone
| UTC-6
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Central
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? Summer (
DST
)
| UTC-5
(
Central
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ZIP code
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- 75201-75212, 75214-75238, 75240-75254, 75258, 75260-75267, 75270, 75275, 75277, 75283-75287, 75301, 75303, 75310, 75312-75313, 75315, 75320, 75323, 75326, 75334, 75336, 75339-75340, 75342-75344, 75354-75360, 75367-75368, 75370-75374, 75376, 75378-75382, 75387, 75389-75394
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Aurie code
| 214, 469, 972
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682, 817
[4]
[5]
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FIPS code
| 48-19000
[6]
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GNIS
featur ID
| 1380944
[7]
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ZIP code prefix
| 752,753
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Interstates
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Website
| dallascityhall.com
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Dallas
(
) is a major ceety in the
state o Texas
an is the lairgest urban centre o the
fowert maist populous metropolitan aurie
in the
Unitit States
. The ceety proper ranks
nint in the U.S.
an
third in Texas
efter
Houston
an
San Antonio
.
[8]
[9]
The ceety's prominence arose frae its historical importance as a centre for the ile an cotton industries, an its poseetion alang numerous railwey lines. The bulk o the ceety is in
Dallas Coonty
, o which it is the coonty seat; housomeivver, sections o the ceety are locatit in
Collin
,
Denton
,
Kaufman
, an
Rockwall
counties. Accordin tae the
2010 United States Census
, the ceety haed a population o 1,197,816. The
United States Census Bureau
's estimate for the ceety's population increased tae 1,300,092 as o 1 Julie 2015.
[10]
Foondit in 1841 an formally incorporatit as a ceety in Februar, 1856, the ceety's economy is primarily based on bankin, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, an transportation, hame tae several
Fortune 500
companies.
[11]
Locatit in
North Texas
an a major ceety in the
Soothwastren Unitit States
, Dallas is the core o the lairgest inland metropolitan aurie in the Unitit States that lacks ony navigable link tae the sea.
[12]
The ceety's prominence arose frae its historical importance as a centre for the
ile
an
cotton
industries, its poseetion alang numerous railwey lines, a strang industrial an financial sector, an its status as a major
inland port
(due lairgely tae the presence o
Dallas/Fort Worth Internaitional Airport
, ane o the lairgest an
busiest
in the warld).
[13]
It wis ratit as a beta
warld ceety
bi the Globalization an Warld Cities Study Group & Network.
[14]
Dallas haes sax
Sister Ceeties
an five Friendship Ceeties.
[15]
Sister Ceeties
Friendship Ceeties