Dallas is located in north-central Texas, 70 miles south of the Oklahoma border and174 miles west of Louisiana. The city is situated on the rolling plains near the headwaters of the Trinity River in an area known as the black-land prairies, midway between the Piney Woods of east Texas and the Great Plains. The general area has an unusual concentration of man-made lakes. Its climate is humid and subtropical, characterized by hot summers and mild winters. Within a 100-mile radius of the city, there are more than 60 lakes and over 50,000 acres of public parkland.
Dallas covers an area of 385 square miles, 342.5 square miles of it is land and 42.5 square miles of it is water. Dallas makes up one-fifth of the much larger urbanized area known as the Dallas,Fort Worth Metroplex, about a quarter of all Texans live in the Dallas, Fort Worth,
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