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Capital: Phoenix

Largest city: Phoenix

Highest point: Humphreys Peak 12,633 ft

Lowest point: Colorado River 70 ft

Admission to Union: February 14, 1912 (48th)

Largest cities: Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Glendale, Chandler, and Scottsdale.

Nickname: Grand Canyon State

Historic Route 66

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles east of Flagstaff, near Winslow

Baseball Spring Training

Camels in Arizona - In 1857, Edward Fitzgerald Beale surveyed a wagon road from Fort Defiance, NM to the Colorado River for the U.S. Army and he used camels from North Africa as pack animals.

Buffalo Soldiers History - This National Park Service Fort Davis (Texas) site includes information about the regiments of Black soldiers eventually transferred to Arizona to fight in the Indian Wars.

The Battle at Picacho Pass is called westernmost battle of Civil War. 

During World War II, Navajo Marines developed a secret code based on the Navajo language which was used in the war in the Pacific and which was never broken.

State of Arizona

About Arizona

Navajo Nation is a self-governing homeland for the Navajo people that occupies 27,000 square miles across three states: Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico

Plan calls for help on U.S. side to contain bloodshed from drug-cartel wars in Mexico.

Arizona as the largest producer of copper in the nation.

Native American History