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The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is approximately 0.25 miles from the Texas State Capitol in Austin. The institution has the fifth-largest... single-campus enrollment in the nation as of fall 2010 , with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of any college in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin was named one of the original eight Public Ivy institutions and was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $640 million for the 2009–2010 school year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J.
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San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.3 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. San... Antonio has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city. It was the fourth-fastest growing large city in the U.S. from 2000 to 2006 and the fifth-fastest-growing from 2007 to 2008. The San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, has a population of 2.2 million based on the 2011 U.S. Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas. The city was named for San Antonio de Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691.
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