Dallas

Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
	Ceety
	City of Dallas
	Tap tae bottom, left to right: Downtown Dallas skyline, Old Red Museum, NorthPark Center, Dallas City Hall, Dallas Museum of Art, Winspear Opera House, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, State Fair of Texas at Fair Park, Dallas Union Station, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, an the American Airlines Center
	Banner Seal
	Eik-name(s): Big D
	Location o Dallas in Dallas Coonty an the U.S. state o Texas
	Dallas Location o Dallas in the contiguous Unitit States
	Coordinates: 32°46′33″N 96°47′48″W / 32.77583°N 96.79667°WCoordinates: 32°46′33″N 96°47′48″W / 32.77583°N 96.79667°W
Kintra	United States
State	Texas
Coonty	Dallas
Incorporatit	2 Februar 1856
Coonties	Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwall, Kaufman
Govrenment
• Teep	Cooncil–Manager
• Bodi	Dallas City Council
• Mayor	Eric Johnson (D)
Area
• Ceety	999.3 km2 (385.8 sq mi)
• Laund	881.9 km2 (340.5 sq mi)
• Water	117.4 km2 (45.3 sq mi)
• Urban	3,645 km2 (1407.2 sq mi)
Elevation	131 m (430 ft)
Population (2016)
• Ceety	1,300,092
• Estimate (2016)	1,300,092
• Rank	(US: 9t)
• Density	1,407/km2 (3,645/sq mi)
• Urban	5,121,892 (6t)
• Metro	7,102,796 (4t)
• CSA	7206144 (7t)
• Demonym	Dallasite
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central)
ZIP code	ZIP codes
Aurie code	214, 469, 972, 682, 817
FIPS code	48-19000
GNIS featur ID	1380944
ZIP code prefix	752,753
Interstates	;
Website	dallascityhall.com

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]