Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county chair of Smith County. It is afterward the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the 33rd most populous city in Texas and 299th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the 198th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and 16th in Texas after Waco and the College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020.

The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway commotion began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan International chapter adopted a two-mile (three kilometer) stretch of U.S. Route 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling upon this segment of U.S. 69 (between Tyler and approachable Lindale) will look brown road signs that read, “First Adopt-A-Highway in the World”.

Tyler is known as the “Rose Capital of America” (also the “Rose City” and the “Rose Capital of the World”), a nickname it earned from a long archives of rose production, cultivation, and processing. It is house to the largest rose garden in the United States, a 14-acre public garden profound that has exceeding 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties. The Tyler Rose Garden Center is also house to the annual Texas Rose Festival which attracts thousands of tourists each October.

As Northeast Texas and Smith County’s major economic, educational, financial, medical and cultural hub, Tyler is host to over 20,000 higher-education students; the University of Texas at Tyler; a academic world health science center; and regional hospital systems. It is plus the headquarters for Brookshire Grocery Company, Cavender’s, Southside Bank, and Synthesizers.com. Other corporations taking into consideration major presence within the city and surrounding Place include AT&T, T-Mobile US, Cricket Wireless and Metro by T-Mobile, Chase Bank, BBVA, Best Buy, and Walmart. Tyler is also house to the Caldwell Zoo and Broadway Square Mall.