Dallas was settled in 1841 as a frontier trading post and today is the ninth largest city in the United States. The population is 1,052,000 and growing, while the entire Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex comprises a population of 3,047,460.

The city of Dallas encompasses 384 square miles of rolling prairie, with native pecan, cottonwoods and oak trees located along the Trinity River and the numerous creeks that feed it. The elevation ranges from 450 to 750 feet.

Dallas is the Southwest's leading business and financial center. It boasts the largest wholesale market in the world and lays claim to being one of the top convention cities in the United States and the No. 1 visitor destination in Texas. Dallas is served by DFW International Airport, the second busiest airport in the world, and Love Field, one of the nation's busiest in-town airports.

Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other major U.S. city, and four times more restaurants per person than New York City.

Olympics 2012 http://www.2012dallas.org/

Six flags over Texas http://www.sixflags.com/texas/

Dallas West End http://www.dallaswestend.org/

Sixth floor museum http://www.jfk.org/

State Fair of Texas http://www.bigtex.com/

Science Center and I-MAX http://www.scienceplace.org/

FW Modern Art Museum http://www.mamfw.org/menu.htm

FW's Sundance Square http://www.sundancesquare.com/

Dallas Zoo http://www.dallas-zoo.org/

FW Zoo http://www.fortworthzoo.com/home.html

Dallas Mavericks http://www.nba.com/mavericks/

Dallas Stars http://www.dallasstars.com/

Dallas Burn Soccer http://www.dallasburn.com/

Dallas Cowboys http://www.dallascowboys.com/

Mesquite Rodeo http://www.mesquiterodeo.com/

Texas Motor Speedway http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com/

Texas Rangers Baseball http://www.Texasrangers.com/home.html

Lone Star Park http://www.lonestarpark.com/

Irving ISD http://www.irving.isd.tenet.edu/

Coppell ISD http://www.Coppellisd.com/

Lewisville ISD http://www.lisd.net/

Dallas ISD http://www.dallasisd.org/

Richardson ISD http://www.richardson.k12.tx.us/

Plano ISD http://www.pisd.edu/

Arlington ISD http://www.arlington.k12.tx.us/

Grapevine/Colleyville ISD http://www.gcisd-k12.org/

Fort Worth ISD http://www.fortworthisd.org/

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University of Dallas http://www.udallas.edu/

SMU (Southern Methodist) http://www.smu.edu/

University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/

Dallas Community Colleges http://www.dcccd.edu/about/hp.htm

Texas Christian University http://www.tcu.edu/

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary http://www.swbts.edu/

Tarrant County Community Colleges http://www.tcjc.cc.tx.us/

News and information

Dallas Morning News http://www.dallasnews.com/

Fort Worth Star Telegram http://www.startext.net/

Dallas Observer http://www.dallasobserver.com/

Dart Bus Line http://www.dart.org/home.htm

Crime Stats http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/dpd/stat_decision.htm