Ark-La-Tex

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The Ark-La-Tex (a portmanteau of the abbreviations for Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; also stylized as Arklatex or ArkLaTex) is a socioeconomic region where the Southern U.S. states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas join. The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas, as well as Oklahoma's southeasternmost county, McCurtain County (part of Choctaw Country). The population of the 40-county core region as of 2020 is 1,469,860 people, down from 1,515,056 in 2010. Shreveport, Louisiana, with 187,593 people in 2020, is the largest city, economic and geographic center of the region, and principal hub for both the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area and Northwestern Louisiana. Longview, Texas, with a population of 81,683 people in 2020, is the second-largest city, as well as a principal city of the Tyler–Longview metropolitan conurbation and Greater Longview metropolitan area. The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas...

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