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NICK NAME | Equality State, Cowboy State | |
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CAPITAL CITY | Cheyenne | |
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LARGEST CITY | Cheyenne | |
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SECOND LARGEST CITY | Casper | |
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LARGEST COUNTY | Laramie | |
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AREA | 97,818 sq. miles; 97,105 sq. miles land, 714 sq. miles water. (10th state) | |
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HIGHEST ELEVATION | 13,804 ft., Gannett Peak (Fremont County) | |
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LOWEST POINT | 3,100 ft. Belle Fourche River (Crook County) | |
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ABBREVIATION | WY (postal); Wyo. (traditional) | |
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AREA CODE(S) | 307 | |
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TIME ZONE | Mountain | |
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PART OF REGION | Rocky Mountain. | |
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ADMISSION DATE | July 10, 1890 (44th State) | |
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LOCATION | In the west-central United States, bordering Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. | |
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NAME ORIGIN | For the Wyoming Valley in northeastern PA; this name for the Wyoming Territory was suggested to Congress by U.S. Representative J.M. Ashbey of Ohio. The name was made popular by the poem "Gertrude of Wyoming" (1809), by British poet Thomas Campbell, and is used in many localities. From the Delaware Indian words maugh-wau-wa-ma, meaning "large plains" or "upon the great plain." | |
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STATE ANIMAL | Bison (Bison bison) | |
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STATE FLOWER | Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja linariaefolia) | |
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STATE FOSSIL | Knightia | |
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STATE SONG | "Wyoming" | |
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STATE STONE | Jade (Nephrite) | |
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STATE TREE | Plains Cottonwood (Populus sargentii) | |
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STATE MOTTO | Equal Rights. |
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