Dallas, with an approximate population of just about 1.3 million people,is the 3rd biggest town in Texas behind Houston and only marginally smaller compared to San Antonio within town boundaries. Dallas is indeed the main town and commercial middle of the 12-county DallasFort WorthArlington urban area that, according to the March 2009 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of 6,300,006 as of July 2008, so making Dallas the 4th biggest and number one fastest-growing ( by population ) urban area in the U. S.
last year ( 2008 ). Dallas is rated as a beta world town by the Globalization and World Towns Study Group & Network. Set up in 1841 and officially incorporated as a town in February, 1856, the town’s economy is based on banking, commerce, telecomms, PC technology, energy, and transport ; only Long Island Town and Houston are home to more Fortune five hundred HQ in the town limits. Found in North Texas and a major town in the North American South, Dallas is the center of the biggest inland urban area in the US that lacks any passable link to the sea. The town’s precedence regardless of this comes from its historic significance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, its position along many railroad lines, a powerful business and money sector, and its standing as a major inland port
