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Dallas is the 3rd largest city in Texas and the 9th largest in the USA. Dallas has a population of around 1.2 million people. The city is the cultural center of the 12-county Dallas?Fort Worth metropolitan area. At over 5.8 million people, this is the 5th-largest metropolitan area in the country.

Dallas was founded in 1841 and incorporated in February of 1856. The city is as a center for telecommunications, computer technology, banking, and transportation. It is the core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the US and lacks link to the sea. Dallas's prominence comes from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries.

Dallas gets about 37.1 inches of rain a year, most comes in the spring. Dallas has a humid subtropical climate. This part of Texas also receives warm, dry winds from the north and west in the summer. In the winter, strong cold fronts from the north pass through, dropping temperatures below freezing. The average annual snowfall in Dallas is only 4.5 inches. Occasionally, warm and humid air from the south overrides cold, dry air, leading to freezing rain.