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The Four Corners area is named after the quadripoint at the intersection of approximately 37° north latitude with 109° 03′ west longitude, where the boundaries of the four states meet, and is marked by the Four Corners Monument. It is the only location in the United States where four states meet.
The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to the area being named the Four Corners region. [ 2 ]
In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world. [1] From the point of view of the Akkadians, the northern geographical horizon was marked by Subartu, the west by Mar.tu, the east by Elam and the south by Sumer; later rulers of all of Mesopotamia, such as Cyrus, claimed among their titles LUGAL ...
King of the Four Corners of the World (Sumerian: lugal-an-ub-da-limmu-ba, [1] Akkadian: šarru kibrat arbaim, [2] šar kibrāti arbaʾi, [3] or šar kibrāt erbetti [4]), alternatively translated as King of the Four Quarters of the World, King of the Heaven's Four Corners or King of the Four Corners of the Universe [5] and often shortened to ...
Four corners of the world may also refer to: Four continents, a 16th-century European view of the globe; 4 Corners of the World, label on the logo of Four Corners Records; The Four Corners of the World, a 1917 short-story collection by A. E. W. Mason; Ad quattuor cardines mundi ("to the four corners of the earth"), motto of St Cross College, Oxford
The four corners is a quadripoint near 60° N 102° W where four Canadian provinces or territories meet. [1] [2] These are the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan ...
The Four Corners Monument is the only point in the United States where four states meet: Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet at right angles. The United States first acquired the area now called Four Corners from Mexico after the Mexican–American War in 1848.
The Four Corners is a region in the southwestern United States where the corners of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet.