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Harlingen
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city in Cameron County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Cameron
- Named after
- Harlingen , Netherlands
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Norma Sepulveda
- City manager
- Gabriel Gonzalez
- City
- 40.63 sq mi (105.22 km )
- Land
- 40.13 sq mi (103.93 km )
- Water
- 0.50 sq mi (1.29 km )
- Elevation
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 71,925
- Density
- 1,790.0/sq mi (691.13/km )
- Metro
- 406,220
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 78550-78553
- Fips code
- 48-32372
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Named after
- Harlingen
- Official name
- Harlingen
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cameron County
- Population
- 71829
- Area
- 104.375357
- Elevation
- 12
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.myharlingen.us
- Image
- Harlingen Cold Storage.jpg
- Households
- 21752
- Dialing code
- 956
Show 11 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Harlingen, Texas
- category for people born here
- Q20897382
- Commons category
- Harlingen, Texas
- postal code
- 78553
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Harlingen, Texas
- inception
- 1904-00-00
- P8168
- Liwa
- water as percent of area
- 1.2247
- different from
- Harlingen
- per capita income
- 20213
- IPA transcription
- ˈhɑːrlɪndʒɪn
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Harlingen (/ˈhɑːrlɪndʒɪn/ HAR-lin-jin) is a city in Cameron County, Texas. It is located in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than 40 square miles (104 km) and is the second-largest city in Cameron County, as well as the sixth-largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 71,892.
Harlingen is a principal city of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, included in the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harlingen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.