The state of Texas is about three times the size of your country, and as a result, it contains several different ecological systems. There can simultaneously be a hurricane on one side of the state and a drought on the other.

The distance between Houston and Amarillo, both in Texas, is comparable to the distance between London and Berlin. I have driven at highway speeds for 10 hours without leaving Texas before when crossing it east to West.

The vast majority of the Mexican Gulf coast of the US is relatively swampy. Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida all have extensive areas of swampy wetlands.

If I correctly recall, Houston has frequent issues with flooding because so much of it is built on basically paved over wetlands.

If you look at Texas on Google maps or earth.google.com you'll see the west half is very dry and has little vegetation, but the east half is actually quite wet and verdant.

The Texas coast is very long and has several islands, and many wetlands.

I went to Scotland and couldn't see Big Ben anywhere. Very confusing!

Wetlands are like swamps. Texas is a state.