Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 956,709, the 5th-most populous in the state and the 13th-most populous in the United States. Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the [[List of metropolitan statistical areas|fourth-most populous.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/071008dnmetpopulation.43799b9.html |archive-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref>