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Fact Check: Map Comparing Size of Texas to Europe Is Mostly Accurate

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A photo shared to Facebook on Oct. 11, 2024 , claimed to show an outline of the state of Texas laid over a map of Europe .

The photo was captioned: " After Seeing These 15 Maps You'll Never Look At The World The Same" Hayley Drennon , senior research assistant at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory , said yes, " Texas really is THAT big" However, the state's borders were moderately exaggerated in the Facebook post, which made its representation only mostly true.

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Map of Four Regions - North, South, East , West .

Texas Department of Transportation , https://ftp.dot.state.us/pub/txdot-info/fin/sib/regions-map.

Texas State Boundary Detailed .