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Geography of Arizona. Arizona is a landlocked state situated in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It has a vast and diverse geography famous for its deep canyons, high- and low-elevation deserts, numerous natural rock formations, and volcanic mountain ranges. Arizona shares land borders with Utah to the north, the Mexican ...
Arizona is in the Southwestern United States as one of the Four Corners states. Arizona is the sixth largest state by area, ranked after New Mexico and before Nevada. Of the state's 113,998 square miles (295,000 km 2), approximately 15% is privately owned.
The southeast of Arizona, with New Mexico, northwest Chihuahua and northeast Sonora contain insular sky island mountain ranges, (the Madrean Sky Islands), or smaller subranges in association. There are also numerous Sonoran Desert ranges, or Arizona transition zone ranges. Northern and northeast Arizona also has scattered ranges throughout.
Maricopa County (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ k oʊ p ə /) is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.As of the 2020 census the population was 4,420,568, [1] or about 62% of the state's total, making it the fourth-most populous county in the United States and the most populous county in Arizona, and making Arizona one of the nation's most centralized states.
Mountain ranges of Arizona. This is a non-diffused parent category for categories . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. in Category:Mountain ranges of Arizona by county. It should hold all the pages in the child categories, and may hold other pages such as lists. child articles not in this parent category.
List of mountain peaks of Arizona. Coordinates: 35.3464°N 111.6780°W. Humphreys Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Arizona. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [ 1] of the U.S. State of Arizona . The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Counties of Arizona. There are 15 counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. [ 1] Four counties (Mohave, Pima, Yavapai and Yuma) were created in 1864 following the organization of the Arizona Territory in 1862. The now defunct Pah-Ute County was split from Mohave County in 1865, but merged back in 1871.
Megaregion extending from Prescott to Nogales. Arizona transition zone. Mogollon Rim and. White Mountains (Arizona) in east. the transition zone region. (diagonal across Arizona–NW-to-E-central); Colorado Plateau to northeast, lower level deserts of Basin and Range to west- (NW), SW, and south. Canyon Lands. Monument Valley.