The skyline

About Dallas Links

This blog is about Dallas Links.

Dallas (pronounced /ˈdæləs/) is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States.^[3]

The city, with a population of over 1.2 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the largest in Texas.

Dallas is listed as a gamma world city by the Loughborough University Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.^[4]

Founded in 1841 and formally incorporated as a city in February, 1856, the city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, and transportation. Dallas is the core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea.^[5] The city's prominence despite this comes from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, its position along numerous railroad lines, a strong industrial and financial sector, and its status as a major inland port (due largely to the presence of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest and busiest in the world).^[6]