Harlingen, Texas

Harlingen, Texas
City
City of Harlingen
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
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Nickname(s):  "Capital City of the Valley", "H-Town"
Motto:  "The Capital of the Rio Grande Valley"
Location in Cameron County and the state of Texas
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Coordinates: 26°12′N 97°42′W / 26.200°N 97.700°W / 26.200; -97.700
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Cameron
Founded	1904
Named for	Harlingen, Netherlands
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• Mayor	Norma Sepulveda
• City Manager	Gabriel Gonzalez
Area [1]
• City	40.63 sq mi (105.22 km2)
• Land	40.13 sq mi (103.93 km2)
• Water	0.50 sq mi (1.29 km2)
Elevation	39 ft (12 m)
Population  (2020)
• City	71,829
• Estimate  (2021)[2]	71,925
• Density	1,800/sq mi (680/km2)
• Metro	406,220
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	78550-78553
Area code	956
FIPS code	48-32372[3]
GNIS feature ID	1337354[4]
Website	www.harlingentx.gov

Harlingen (/ˈhɑːrlɪndʒɪn/ HAR-lin-jin)^[6] is a city in Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than 40 square miles (104 km²) and is the second-largest city in Cameron County, as well as the fourth-largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 71,892.^[2]

Harlingen is a principal city of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, included in the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan region.