They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true.
If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 10th-highest gross domestic product in the world.
Some of that growth is attributed to Texas' energy businesses, though it has been hurt by the oil crash over the past two years.
Texas still dominates livestock production and is a leader in renewable energy.
Here are some stunning facts about this key state:
Texas has enough crude-oil reserves to fill up almost 1,862 Empire State Buildings.
Texas had 12.27 billion barrels of crude-oil reserves in 2014, or 515.42 billion gallons. That's 33.7% of US reserves.
The Empire State Building's volume is 37 million cubic feet, or 276,779,000 gallons.
Source: US Energy Information Administration
There are enough registered machine guns in Texas to arm every student enrolled at Harvard and Dartmouth.
There are 34,848 registered machine guns in Texas.
There are about 21,000 students enrolled at Harvard and about 6,300 students at Dartmouth.
Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Thirty-seven Wyomings would still have fewer businesses than Texas.
There were 2,356,748 firms in Texas in 2012.
There were 62,427 in Wyoming in 2012.
Source: US Census
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