Austin, Texas (usa)

Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas ranks 232nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Porto Alegre, San Antonio, and Gdańsk. Memorable people born in Austin, Texas include Tom Ford, Ethan Hawke, and Tobe Hooper. Memorable people who died in Austin, Texas include Steven Weinberg, Robert Noyce, and John B. Goodenough. Austin, Texas has been the birth place of many actors and film directors and the death place of many physicists and musicians. Austin, Texas is located in United States.

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the tenth-most populous city in the United States, the fourth-most populous city in the state after Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately 80 miles (129 km) apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 corridor. This combined metropolitan region of San Antonio–Austin has approximately 5 million people. Austin is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States and is considered a Beta-level global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Read more on Wikipedia