Houston, Texas

Houston is the largest city in Texas (United States of America) and is located on the Gulf of Mexico. The city is the fourth largest of the US and the largest on the Gulf Coast.Houston is located in Harris County, the third largest county in terms of population of the us. Houston itself has about 2 million inhabitants, with an urban agglomeration of 6 million people, and growing fast.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == The city is founded in 1836 by John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen. She was named after the popular General of the battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston, who was elected president of Texas in september 1836. ==Economy[ Edit] == Houston has a strategic position in relation to the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico a large petrochemical industry. Furthermore, the Houston ship channel one of the busiest waterways of the us. It provided a great industrial growth of the city. Also, there are numerous main buildings of large enterprises located in Houston, including banks and energy companies.
 * Economy 2
 * 3 Lyndon b. Johnson Space Center
 * 4 Museums
 * 5 Education
 * 6 demographics
 * 6.1 Asian Americans
 * 7 Climate
 * traffic and transport 8
 * 9 born in Houston
 * 10 town twinning
 * 11 places
 * 12 external links

In 1982 was in Houston founded the computer company Compaq Computer. The company stopped here always the head office in 2002, until it merged with Hewlett-Packard Company. Now the head office function is shared with Palo Alto, California. ==Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center[ Edit] == The Lyndon b. Johnson Space Center of NASA is based in Houston. From here all the missions that NASA undertake coordinated. Houston is the title of the capcom, the only person in the flight control center with whom the astronauts speak directly. This is also the first word, Houston that was spoken on the moon. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrongspoke, the Commander of Apollo 11, the following words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. "

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The statement "Houston, we have a problem" is often a joke made if one or other problem. This is an inaccurate rendering of "Houston, we've had a problem", a famous phrase that Commander Jim Lovell spoke following an explosion aboard Apollo 13. ==Museums<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many museums in Houston are located in the Houston Museum District. Some of these museums are:

==Education<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Demographics<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For 31% of the population, which consists of single households, 9% over 65. The unemployment amounts to 5.1% (census 2010 figures).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-census2010_1-1" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]
 * Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
 * Menil Collection
 * Contemporary Art Museum
 * Holocaust Museum Houston
 * Awty International School: school community with international education on elementary and high school level.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">About 43.8% of the population of Houston is made up of hispanics and Latinos, 23.7% 6.0% of African origin and is of Asian origin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p lang="en" len="92" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The number of inhabitants increased from 1.697.873 in 1990 to 1.953.631 in 2000 and 2.099.451 in 2010. ===Asian Americans<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Houston has a large population of immigrants from Asia/Asian Americans. There are plenty of Chinese religious buildings In Chinatown (Chinese temples, Chinese-Buddhist temples and Chinese churches). A part of theChinese Americans here is born in Viet Nam. Houston has the largest population of Vietnamese Americans of Texas and the third largest of the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  many of these Vietnamese Americans came in 2007 from Southern California to Texas because of the lower cost of living.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5] ==Climate<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In January the average temperature 11.2 ° c, in July is that 28.6 ° c. On average annually precipitation is 1291,1 mm (measurement data based on the period 1961-1990). ==Traffic and transport<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Houston is a major hub for aviation, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport is the eighth busiest airport in the United States. Houston also has a second, smaller Airport: William p. Hobby Airport.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city includes a large highway network, which was built in a spider web system, with 7 radiating motorways and two ring roads (a third ring road-the Grand Parkway-is in development). North-South Interstate 45 runs from the coastal city of Galveston to Dallas. Interstate 10 runs east-west from San Antonio to New Orleans. In addition, the U.S. Route 59 runs from Victoria to Lufkin. The U.S. Route 290 comes from Austin and ends in Houston. The two ring roads Interstate 610 and Texas State Highway Beltway 8 form a 61-kilometre-long route 134 respectively to the city. Some of the highways in Houston are toll roads, including most of the Beltway 8. Because of the rapid growth of the agglomeration Houston-between 2000 and 2007 grew the agglomeration with 913,000 inhabitants-the motorway network is constantly improved. A striking number of nodes are built as star nodes, and are often performed with great long flyovers. Interstate 10 West of the village, known as the Katy Freeway, is between 2004 and 2008 from 6-8 to up to 16 lanes widened, with toll-and Exchange strips. Other highways also often count to ten lanes in total.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Texas, it has been customary to so-called parallel frontage roads, roads, to apply. This is done largely in Houston. They are not part of the actual highway, but process the traffic from the highways to the underlying road network and the many companies that are located along the frontage roads . The busiest highway is the Southwest Freeway (U.S. Highway 59), which counted 337,000 vehicles per day in 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Houston has a station on the Amtrakline from New Orleans to Los Angeles; This line is also called called the Sunset Limited . Since 2004, Houston also a light railsystem with one 13 km long line, running from downtown to the universiteitscentum in the Reliant Stadium in the South. Future expansions (five additional lines) are scheduled in a ten-year plan. ==Born in Houston<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Town Twinning<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Discover nearby towns<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="435" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The following diagram represents the places in a RADIUS of 12 km around Houston. HoustonBellaire (10 km) Hilshire Village (11 km)Hunters Creek Village (11 km)Southside Place (8 km)Spring Valley (12 km)West University Place (7 km) ==External links<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Baku (Azerbaijan)
 * Chiba (Japan)
 * Huelva (Spain)
 * Istanbul (Turkey)
 * Lahore (Pakistan)
 * Leipzig (Germany)
 * Perth (Australia)
 * Shenzhen (China)
 * Taipei (Taiwan)
 * Tampico (Mexico)
 * Tyumen (Russia)