Fort Worth is the seventeenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and located inNorth Texas .It is the cultural gateway into the American West, the city covers nearly 300 square miles.According to a 2009 estimate by the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the city has a population of 720,250. The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area aka the Metroplex. Fort Worth and the surrounding area offer numerous business opportunity and a extensive array of attractions.
Established originally in 1849 as a protective Army outpost located on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, the city of Fort Worth today still embraces its western heritage and traditional architecture and design.