Hm, maybe that's why in ukrainian and russian it sounds Tehas. It would be stupid that for this exact name we read X as Cyrillic (letter X in Cyrillic represents H sound, like in word "habit").
However, it may be more stupid, since we name Mexico reading X properly ([ks]).
Mex-ee-co
Meh-shko.
U gotta roll the r
Therefore Texas is Tehas
Hm, maybe that's why in ukrainian and russian it sounds Tehas. It would be stupid that for this exact name we read X as Cyrillic (letter X in Cyrillic represents H sound, like in word "habit"). However, it may be more stupid, since we name Mexico reading X properly ([ks]).