Houston
Houston is a sprawling port city in Southeastern Texas. An oil boom and continuing international immigration has brought explosive growth to the city, and it is now the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport is the main international airport of Houston and a major gateway into Texas.Downtown Houston
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Downtown is the central business district of Houston.
Neartown
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Neartown is a general name for the lively area that encompasses the neighborhoods just west of Downtown.
Destinations
West Houston
West Houston, at first glance, seems to be no more than urban sprawl at its worst: strip malls, gridlock, billboards, and more strip malls.South Inner Loop
South and west of downtown, South Inner Loop is home to the Museum District, Hermann Park, Rice University, the Texas Medical Center, and Reliant Stadium.North Houston
North Houston is known chiefly as the home of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, industrial…East Houston
Rough-and-tumble East Houston is the city's beating, industrial heart - along with William P.Uptown Houston
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Uptown is in Houston, though nobody in Houston has used that term since about 1970 - it's generally referred to as "The Galleria", or to motorists at I-610 and U.S.
Clear Lake
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Clear Lake is a district of Houston. It is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
West Inner Loop
The West Inner Loop encompasses many of the poshest, most upscale neighborhoods and business areas in Houston.Greater Heights
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The Greater Heights area includes some of Houston's most pleasant neighborhoods as well as a burgeoning restaurant and nightlife scene, especially on the Washington Street corridor.
Notable Places in the Area
Minute Maid Park
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Minute Maid Park, nicknamed The Juice Box, is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States.
Shell Energy Stadium
Shell Energy Stadium is an American multi-purpose stadium located in Houston, Texas that is home…Localities in the Area
Midtown
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Midtown is a central neighborhood of Houston, located west-southwest of Downtown.
Broadacres
Broadacres is a subdivision in Houston, Texas, United States, within the Boulevard Oaks community.Fourth Ward
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Fourth Ward is one of the historic six wards of Houston, Texas, United States.
Houston
- Type: City with 2,300,000 residents
- Description: city in Texas, United States
- Postal codes: 77001-77096, 77098, 77099, 77201-77210, 77212, 77213, 77215-77231, 77233-77238, 77240-77245, 77248, 77249, 77251-77259, 77261-77263, 77265-77275, 77277, 77279, 77280, 77282, 77284, 77287-77293, 77297 and 77299
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, million city, county seat and locality
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.7589° or 29° 45' 32" northLongitude
-95.3677° or 95° 22' 4" westPopulation
2,300,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
HOUUnited Nations Location Code
US HOUOpen Location Code
76X6QJ5J+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 27526178OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4699066Wikidata ID
Q16555Houston Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Houston
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- Albanian: Hjuston
- Albanian: Houston
- Amharic: ሂውስተን
- Arabic: Houston
- Arabic: هيوستن
- Aragonese: Houston
- Armenian: Հյուստոն
- Asturian: Houston, Texas
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- Aymara: Houston
- Azerbaijani: Hyuston
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- Belarusian: Г’юстан
- Belarusian: Х'юстан
- Belarusian: Хюстан
- Belarusian: Х’юстан
- Bengali: হিউস্টন
- Bosnian: Houston
- Breton: Houston
- Bulgarian: Хюстън
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- Catalan: Houston
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- Central Kurdish: ھیووستن
- Chechen: Хьюстон
- Chinese: Houston
- Chinese: 休士頓
- Chinese: 休斯敦/休士頓
- Chinese: 休斯敦
- Chinese: 休斯顿
- Chinese: 侯斯頓
- Chuvash: Хьюстон
- Cornish: Houston, Teksas
- Croatian: Houston, Teksas
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- Croatian: Svemirski grad
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- Egyptian Arabic: هيوستن
- English: City of Houston
- English: H-Town
- English: Houston, TX
- English: Houston, Texas
- English: Houston TX
- English: Space City
- English: USHOU
- Erzya: Хьюстон
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- Esperanto: Hustono
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- Finnish: Houston, Texas
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- Gan Chinese: 休斯頓
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- German: Houston
- German: Houston, Texas
- Gothic: 𐌷𐍉𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌽
- Greek: Χιούστον, Τέξας
- Greek: Χιούστον
- Guarani: Houston
- Gujarati: હ્યુસ્ટન
- Haitian: Houston, Texas
- Haitian: Youstòn, Teksas
- Hakka Chinese: Hiû-sṳ̂-tûn
- Hakka Chinese: Houston
- Hausa: Houston, Kekeka
- Hausa: Houston
- Hawaiian: Houston, Kekeka
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- Hindi: ह्युस्टन
- Hindi: ह्यूस्टन
- Hungarian: Houston
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- Ido: Houston, Texas
- Inari Sami: Houston
- Indonesian: H-Town
- Indonesian: Houston, Texas
- Indonesian: Houston
- Indonesian: Kota Houston
- Indonesian: Space City
- Indonesian: USHOU
- Interlingua: Houston, Texas
- Interlingue: Houston
- Inuktitut: ᓯᐅᔅᑕᓐ
- Irish: Houston, Texas
- Irish: Houston
- Italian: Houston
- Japanese: ヒューストン
- Javanese: Houston, Texas
- Kabyle: Houston
- Kannada: ಹ್ಯೂಸ್ಟನ್
- Kannada: ಹ್ಯೂಸ್ಟನ್
- Kazakh: Хьюстон
- Kikuyu: Houston
- Korean: 휴스턴
- Kurdish: Houston
- Ladin: Houston
- Ladino: Houston
- Latin: Hustonia
- Latvian: Hjūstona
- Limburgan: Houston
- Lithuanian: Hiustonas
- Lombard: Houston
- Low German: Houston
- Luxembourgish: Houston
- Macedonian: Хјустон
- Maithili: ह्युस्टन
- Malagasy: Houston
- Malay: Houston
- Malayalam: ഹ്യൂസ്റ്റൺ
- Maltese: Houston
- Manx: Houston, Texas
- Manx: Houston
- Marathi: ह्युस्टन
- Min Nan Chinese: Houston
- Mingrelian: ჰიუსთონი
- Mingrelian: ჰიუსტონი
- Moksha: Гьюстон
- Mongolian: Хьюстон
- Moroccan Arabic: هيوستن
- Nepali: ह्युस्टन
- Norwegian: Houston
- Norwegian Bokmål: Houston
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Houston
- Occitan (post 1500): Houston
- Ossetian: Хьюстон
- Pampanga: Houston, Texas
- Panjabi: ਹੂਸਟਨ
- Papiamento: Houston
- Persian: هوستون
- Persian: هیوستون
- Piemontese: Houston
- Polish: Houston
- Portuguese: Houston
- Portuguese: Houston, Texas
- Pushto: هیوستون
- Quechua: Houston
- Romanian: Houston
- Russian: Хьюстон
- Sardinian: Houston
- Saterfriesisch: Houston
- Scots: Houston
- Scottish Gaelic: Houston, Texas
- Serbian: Hjuston
- Serbian: Хјустон
- Serbo-Croatian: Houston
- Sicilian: Houston
- Silesian: Houston
- Sindhi: ھوسٽن
- Sinhala: හූස්ටන්
- Slovak: Houston
- Slovenian: Houston, Teksas
- Slovenian: Houston
- Somali: Houston
- South Azerbaijani: هیوستون
- Spanish: Ciudad De Houston
- Spanish: Ciudad Espacial
- Spanish: Houston
- Spanish: Houston (TX)
- Spanish: Houston (Texas)
- Sranan Tongo: Houston
- Swahili: Houston, Texas
- Swedish: Houston, Texas
- Swedish: Houston
- Swiss German: Houston
- Tagalog: Houston
- Tajik: Хюстон
- Tajik: Ҳюстон
- Tajik: Ҳюстун
- Tamil: ஹியூஸ்டன்
- Tatar: Hyuston
- Tatar: Хьюстон
- Tatar: Һьюстон
- Telugu: హ్యూస్టన్
- Thai: ฮิวสตัน
- Tornedalen Finnish: Houston, Texas
- Tornedalen Finnish: Houston
- Tosk Albanian: Houston
- Turkish: Houston, Teksas
- Turkish: Houston
- Turkmen: Houston
- Twi: Houston
- Uighur: Hyuston
- Ukrainian: Г'юстон
- Ukrainian: Х'юстон
- Ukrainian: Хюстон
- Urdu: ہوسٹن
- Urdu: ہیوسٹن
- Uzbek: Houston
- Uzbek: Hyuston
- Uzbek: Xyuston
- Venetian: Houston
- Veps: Hjuston
- Vietnamese: Houston, Texas
- Vietnamese: Houston
- Vlax Romani: Houston
- Volapük: Houston
- Waray (Philippines): Houston
- Welsh: Houston, Texas
- Welsh: Houston
- Western Armenian: Հիւսթըն
- Western Frisian: Houston
- Western Mari: Хьюстон
- Western Panjabi: ہیوسٹن
- Wu Chinese: 休斯敦
- Yakut: Хьюстон
- Yiddish: היוסטן
- Yoruba: Houston
- Yue Chinese: 侯斯頓
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Houston. Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY 2.0.