Dallas
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Dallas (/ˈdæləs/) 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]
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Sister ceeties
Dallas haes sax Sister Ceeties an five Friendship Ceeties.[15]
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