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Colorado

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About Colorado

Colorado is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, and part of the Southwestern United States, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, and Oklahoma to the southeast. Colorado is noted for its landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth-largest U.S. state by area and the 20th by population. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population of Colorado to be 5,957,493 as of July 1, 2024, a 3.2% increase from the 2020 United States census.

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More facts about Colorado

  1. The tallest mountain in Colorado is Mount Elbert, and it sits right next to another mountain called Mount Massive.

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  2. Colorado's state motto is 'nothing without providence'.

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  3. In 2022 a Colorado man tried to push a peanut to the top of Pike's Peak, a 14,115 foot mountain, on his hands and knees.

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Coordinates: 39.0000, -105.5000

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