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| | English Teaching Forum Online Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |
 | | Texas is a diverse geographic area with a long coastline, wide open plains, rolling wooded hills, flat prairies, dry desert, and rugged mountains and canyons. |
 | | West Texas has two national parks: the Guadalupe Mountains with Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in the state at 8,749 feet elevation (2,666 m), and Big Bend with the Chisos mountains and canyons of the Rio Grande. |
 | | Central Texas was originally settled by Germans and Czech immigrants and is perhaps the least Texas-like area of the state. |
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