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Texas is located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents.Houston is its largest city and the fourth-largest in the United States, while the Dallas–Fort Worth is the largest metropolitan area in the state and the fourth-largest in the nation. Other major cities include San Antonio and Austin—the state capital.Texas contains diverse landscapes, resembling in places both the Deep South and the desert Southwest. Traveling from east to west, one can observe piney woods and semi-forests of oak and cross timbers, rolling plains and prairie, and finally the desert of the Big Bend.Texas is associated throughout much of the world with the image of the cowboy.As of 2006, the state had an estimated population of 23,507,783.

LIST OF SCHOOLS IN TEXAS OFFERING CNA PROGRAMS