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Tulsa

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Tulsa calls itself the "Oil Capital of the World." Here, the age of the oil boom found its center. A small town by US standards, metropolitan luxuries such as theater, fine dining, nightlife, and shopping are found in a state known for sparsely populated farming communities.

Broken Arrow

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Broken Arrow is a city in the Green Country region of Oklahoma about 15 miles southeast of Tulsa. It is the largest suburb of Tulsa County at a population of 110,000. Its nickname is "Tree City"…

Tahlequah

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Tahlequah is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.

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Muskogee

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Muskogee is the 13th-largest city in Oklahoma and is the county seat of Muskogee County. It lies approximately 48 miles southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census, a 6.0% decrease from 39,223 in 2010.

Okmulgee

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Okmulgee is a city in the Tulsa metropolitan area and the county seat of Okmulgee County in Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Okmulgee had a population of 11,322.

Miami

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Miami is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States, founded in 1891. Lead and zinc mining were established by 1918, causing the area's economy to boom.

Bartlesville

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Bartlesville is in Green Country Oklahoma north of Tulsa. It is the home of Phillips Petroleum Company now merged with Conoco and called ConocoPhillips.

Sapulpa

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Sapulpa is in the Green Country region of Oklahoma, a conservative little town that sounds like Sebulba from Star Wars if you say it fast.

Claremore

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Claremore is in the Green Country region of Oklahoma. Claremore is famous for being the birthplace of legendary Will Rogers. It is also famous to locals because of Cherokee casino and resort.

Vinita

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Vinita is a city in and the county seat of Craig County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,193.

Pawhuska

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Pawhuska is a city of 3,400 people in the Green Country region of Oklahoma. It is a good base for visiting the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve and its buffalo herds, plus it serves as the base for the Osage tribal government and is allegedly where the first Boy Scout troop started.

Wagoner

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Wagoner is a city in the Green Country in Oklahoma. It was huge on the railroad scene with Henry Wagoner's helping hand, and the first city to be incorporated in Indian Territory, in 1896.

Sand Springs

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Sand Springs is a city in Osage, Creek and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A western suburb of Tulsa, it is located predominantly in Tulsa County.

Sallisaw

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Sallisaw is in the Green Country region of Oklahoma and the county seat for Sequoyah County. A town that was designated as the Depression-scene setting at the beginning of The Grapes Of Wrath, an image Sallisaw isn't always terribly proud of.

Owasso

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Owasso is a city of 39,000 people in the Green Country region of Oklahoma. Owasso sprang up around Tulsa International Airport, and is now largely a bedroom community of Tulsa.

Eufaula

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Eufaula is a city in and the county seat of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,766 at the 2020 census. It is in the southern part of the county, north of McAlester and south of Muskogee.

Bixby

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Bixby is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma; it is a suburb of Tulsa. Its population was 28,609 at the 2020 census and 20,884 in the 2010 census, an increase of 36.99 percent In 2010, Bixby became the 19th largest city in Oklahoma.

Jenks

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Jenks is in the Green Country region of Oklahoma. Jenks' landscape is very similar to Tulsa's which is green with lots of trees and hills. It is right next to the Arkansas River, Riverparks, and it is near to many of the attractions in Tulsa.

Checotah

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Checotah is a town in the Green Country area of Oklahoma, named after a Creek Nation chief. It got into an armed dispute over the county seat status of McIntosh County around 1908 with Eufaula but lost.

Coweta

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Coweta is a city in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States, a suburb of Tulsa. As of the 2020 census, Coweta had a population of 9,654. Part of the Creek Nation in Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a U.S. state, the town was first settled in 1840.

Bristow

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Bristow is a city in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 4,248, up slightly from the population of 4,222 reported at the 2010 census.

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