• The 23rd District of Texas spans two time zones, three climates and is 52,620.74 square miles according to the 2000 Census figures.
  
  
• The State of Texas is 261,797.12 square miles. Congressman Bonilla represents 25 counties, which accounts for approximately 20 percent of the total square miles in Texas. The 23rd District is the largest district in the State.
  
  
• The 23rd district is larger than 24 states including Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio and Virginia.
  
  
• It includes some of the fastest growing communities in Texas: Laredo, San Antonio, the Big Bend/Davis Mountains region and El Paso, just to name a few.
  
  
• The 23rd district spans more than 700 miles of the Texas/Mexico border.
  
  
• It supports a unique economic base ranging from oil and gas, ranching and farming, health care, defense and business linked to border trade.
  
  
• The 23rd district stretches northwest from San Antonio, across the Permian Basin region to El Paso. It then stretches along the Texas/Mexico border, south across the Big Bend country to Del Rio and then down to Eagle Pass and South to Laredo.
  

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CITIES in the 23rd Congressional District

COUNTIES in the 23rd Congressional District

MAP of the 23rd Congressional District