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NICK NAME | The Sooner State, Frontier State | |
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CAPITAL CITY | Oklahoma City | |
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LARGEST CITY | Oklahoma City | |
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SECOND LARGEST CITY | Tulsa | |
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LARGEST COUNTY | Oklahoma | |
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AREA | 69,903 sq. miles; 68,679 sq. miles land, 1,224 sq. miles water. (20th Largest state) | |
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HIGHEST ELEVATION | 4,978 ft., Black Mesa (Cimarron County) | |
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LOWEST POINT | 287 ft. along the Little River (McCurtain County) | |
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ABBREVIATION | OK (postal); Okla. (traditional) | |
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AREA CODE(S) | 405, 580, 918 | |
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TIME ZONE | Central | |
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PART OF REGION | South; Southwest | |
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ADMISSION DATE | November 16, 1907 (46th State) | |
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LOCATION | In the the southcentral United States, bordering Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. | |
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NAME ORIGIN | Suggested by the Rev. Allen Wright, chief of the Choctaws, to designate his tribal land, once commonly known as the Indian Territory (1866). From Choctaw okla "people" and humma or homma "red," thus "land of the red people." The name was orginally applied to a railroad station that became Oklahoma City, then was used for the Territory of Oklahoma in 1890, and hence the state. | |
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STATE ANIMAL | American Buffalo (Bison bison) | |
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STATE BIRD | Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher (Muscivora forficatus) | |
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STATE FISH | White (sand) Bass (Morone Chrysops) | |
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STATE FLOWER | Mistletoe (Phoradendron Serotinum) | |
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STATE GRASS | Indian Grass (Sorghastrum Nutans) | |
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STATE SONG | "Oklahoma!" | |
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STATE STONE | Barite Rose (Rose Rock) | |
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STATE TREE | Redbud (Cercis Canadensis) | |
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STATE MOTTO | Labor amnia vincit (Latin: "Labor conquers all things.") |
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