| Houston | ||
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| Salutation | Space City | |
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| State | United States of America | |
| Federated state | Texas | |
| Altitude | 13 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 1,558.40 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 2.160.821 (2012 estimate) | |
| Name inhabitants | Houstonian | |
| Prefix tel | 1 713, 281, 832 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 77000–77099, 77200–77299 | |
| Time zone | UTC-6 | |
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Houston is a city of Texas in United States of America.
To know
How to orient yourself
Houston: full screen map.How to get
By plane
Houston's main airport is George Bush Intercontinental Airport, (IAH), located 23 miles north of downtown.
The city's other airport, mainly used for domestic flights, is William P. Hobby Airport, (HOU), located 7 miles south of downtown.
How to get around
By public transport
The city has a metropolitan service managed by the METRO company and a light rail service METRORail.
What see
- Fine Arts Museum (Museum of Fine Arts). It is one of the major museums of the United States: it houses 40,000 objects dating back to the last 6,000 years of history.
- NASA Space Center (NASA's Johnson Space Center), 1601 NASA Parkway Houston, Texas 77058, ☎ 1 281 244-2100.
Open every day from 10am to 5pm. It is the visitor center of NASA. It is possible to observe rockets and spacecraft, the command center of various missions in space, the astronaut training center and a museum with various exhibits.
Open every day from 10am to 5pm. It is the visitor center of NASA. It is possible to observe rockets and spacecraft, the command center of various missions in space, the astronaut training center and a museum with various exhibits.
