what states border texas

Texas shares its border with four US states: Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, Louisiana to the east, and New Mexico to the west. Louisiana is the only one of the four states bordering Texas that can be described as coastal. Additionally, Texas also shares a border with Mexico, specifically the Mexican states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Chihuahua to the southwest. The Texas border with Mexico makes up about half of the US-Mexico border, stretching 1,254 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to El Paso.