Portal:Arizona
Arizona (
i/ɛrɪˈzoʊnə/; /ærɪˈzoʊnə/) (Navajo: Hoozdo Hahoodzo; O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak) is a state of the United States, located in the southwestern region of the country. Arizona is also part of the Western United States and of the Mountain West states. Arizona is the sixth most extensive and the 16th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. The second largest city is Tucson, followed in population by eight cities of the Phoenix metropolitan area: Mesa, Glendale, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tempe, Peoria, and Surprise.
Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, having achieved statehood on February 14, 1912. Arizona is noted for its desert climate in its southern half, where there are very hot summers and quite mild winters. The northern half of Arizona also features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees, a very large, high plateau (the Colorado Plateau) and some mountain ranges—such as the San Francisco Mountains—as well as large, deep canyons, where there is much more moderate weather for three seasons of the year, plus significant snowfalls. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff and Alpine. Arizona is one of the Four Corners states. Arizona has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, and it has one point in common with the southwestern corner of Colorado. Arizona has a 389-mile (626 km)-long international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.
Arizona is one of the most populous landlocked states of the United States. In addition to the Grand Canyon National Park, several national forests, national parks, and national monuments are located in Arizona. About one-quarter of Arizona is federal land that serves as the home of the Navajo Nation; the Hopi tribe; the Tohono O'odham; the Apache tribe; the Yaqui peoples; and various Yuman tribes, such as the Yavapai people, the Quechan people, and the Hualapai people.
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The Central Arizona Project Aqueduct is a diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct[disambiguation needed] diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City into central and southern Arizona. The Central Arizona Project is a multipurpose water resource development and management project that was designed to provide water to nearly one million acres (4,000 km²) of Indian and non-Indian irrigated agricultural land areas as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities.
- ...that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States?
- ...that the Navajo Times was the first daily newspaper published by an American Indian Nation?
- ...that the population of Grasshopper Junction in Arizona, USA, received the same estimated radiation dose pre-Plumbbob (pictured) as they did afterward?
- ...that the southern side of Mount Elden (pictured) in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977?
- ... that after assuming his post on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Judge DeForest Porter was surprised to learn that area temperatures reached 114 °F (46 °C)?
- ... that Dwight B. Heard is credited with making Arizona's cotton industry more competitive after becoming president of the Arizona Cotton Association?
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- March 28: Planned Parenthood asks Arizona federal judge for injunction
- May 7: Solar powered plane completes first leg of transcontinental trip
- April 29: Australian Jesse Williams drafted in fifth round by the NFL's Seattle Seahawks
- February 7: Reports of at least fourteen dead this week due to gun-related suicides in the United States
- June 16: FanFiction.Net adult content purge felt across fandom two weeks on
- June 2: US fans turn out for 2012 Phoenix Comicon
- March 21: US Air Force upgrades F-22 oxygen system after deadly crash
- November 29: 'America’s Toughest Sheriff' to endorse Rick Perry for U.S. PresidentTemplate:/box-footer
- Nickname: The Grand Canyon State
- Capital and largest city: Phoenix
- Governor: Doug Ducey (R)
- Total area: 295,254 km2 (113,998 sq mi)
- Population (2009 estimate): 6,595,778
- Date admitted to the Union: February 14, 1912
- Senators: John McCain (R), Jeff Flake (R)
- Representatives: Ann Kirkpatrick (D), Martha McSally (R), Raúl Grijalva (D), Paul Gosar (R), Matt Salmon (R), David Schweikert (R), Ruben Gallego (D), Trent Franks (R), Kyrsten Sinema (D)
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- Animal: Ring-tailed Cat
- Bird: Cactus wren
- Butterfly: Two-tailed Swallowtail
- Colors: Federal Blue and old gold
- Firearm: The Colt Single-Action Army Revolver
- Fish: Apache trout
- Flower: Saguaro blossom
- Fossil: Araucarioxylon arizonicum
- Gem: Turquoise
- Neckwear: Bolo tie
- Reptile: Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake
- Songs: "Arizona March Song", "Arizona"
- Tree: Blue Palo VerdeTemplate:/box-footer
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