Today’s random Texas statistic: this is the 26th-largest subnational governing body, as measured by area, in the world.
Alaska clocks in at #7, and I doubt anyone is ever going to overtake the winner, Russia’s Sakha Republic, which takes up a large percentage (about 24%) of Siberia. You could fit roughly 4½ Texases in the Sakha Republic. On the other hand, the greater Austin area has more people than the Sakha Republic, so we might be evenly matched in a game of pick-up basketball.
![By TUBS [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Yeah, that's, uh, big.](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/800px-Sakha_in_Russia.svg_.png)
Yeah, that’s, uh, big.
Photo credit: By TUBS [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.