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The Theater District is a 17-block area in the center of Downtown Houston that is home to the Bayou Place entertainment complex restaurants movies plazas and parks Bayou Place is a large multilevel building containing full-service restaurants bars live music billiards and Sundance Cinema the Bayou Music Center stages live concerts stage plays and stand-up comedy Space Center Houston is the official visitors' center of NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center the Space Center has many interactive exhibits including moon rocks a shuttle simulator and presentations about the history of NASA's manned space flight program Other tourist attractions include the Galleria (Texas' largest shopping mall located in the Uptown District) Old Market Square the Downtown Aquarium and Sam Houston Race Park! Paris Texas (25,151) 1920 4,663,228 19.7% Multiracial individuals are also a visible minority in Texas People identifying as multiracial form 1.9 percent of the population and number over 448,000 people Almost 80,000 Texans claim African and European heritage and make up 0.3 percent of the population People of European and American Indian ancestry number over 108,800 (close to the number of Native Americans) and make up 0.5 percent of the population People of European and Asian ancestry number over 57,600 and form just 0.2 percent of the population People of African and Native American ancestry were even smaller in number (15,300) and make up just 0.1 percent of the total population.

The Astrodome is a playable field on MVP Baseball 2005 as in the 1999 format, Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838, Two-thirds of all Texans live in a major metropolitan area such as Houston the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area is the largest in Texas While Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is larger than Houston. Houston is located 165 miles (266 km) east of Austin 88 miles (142 km) west of the Louisiana border and 250 miles (400 km) south of Dallas the city has a total area of 637.4 square miles (1,651 km2); this comprises over 599.59 square miles (1,552.9 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) covered by water. Most of Houston is located on the gulf coastal plain and its vegetation is classified as Western Gulf coastal grasslands while further north it transitions into a subtropical jungle the Big Thicket Much of the city was built on forested land marshes swamp and are all still visible in surrounding areas.[citation needed] Flat terrain and extensive greenfield development have combined to worsen flooding. Downtown stands about 50 feet (15 m) above sea level and the highest point in far northwest Houston is about 150 feet (46 m) in elevation the city once relied on groundwater for its needs but land subsidence forced the city to turn to ground-level water sources such as Lake Houston Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston the city owns surface water rights for 1.20 billion gallons of water a day in addition to 150 million gallons a day of groundwater. They also brought or purchased enslaved African Americans whose numbers tripled in the state from 1850 to 1860 from 58,000 to 182,566. Nichols-Rice-Cherry House located in Sam Houston Park, The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945 and the refusal of Japan to surrender under its terms the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August respectively With an invasion of the Japanese archipelago imminent the possibility of additional atomic bombings the Soviet entry into the war against Japan and its invasion of Manchuria Japan announced its intention to surrender on 15 August 1945 cementing total victory in Asia for the Allies Tribunals were set up by the Allies and war crimes trials were conducted in the wake of the war both against the Germans and the Japanese, Gulf Coast campaign 1960 9,579,677 24.2% 7.3.1 Brutus oil spill.