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Arizona, also known as the Grand Canyon State, is in the . Admitted as the 48th State of the Union in 1912, Arizona is home to the as well as a variety of terrain, climates and cultures.
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is the capital of the state of Arizona, the most populous city in the American Southwest. Warm and sunny winter weather have ensured a thriving tourism industry, and the city has become the region's primary political, cultural, economic, and transportation center.

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, also known as the "Old Pueblo", is the second-largest city in the state of Arizona and the county seat of Pima County in the Sonoran Desert. It is at a higher elevation than nearby Phoenix and is correspondingly cooler.

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, population 518,000, is in Maricopa County. It is Arizona's third-largest city, and is part of the urban complex.

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is a region of Arizona surrounding . The total area accounts for 4.8 million residents and is the 11th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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is a region in Arizona, a state of the United States of America. It is most famous for the but includes a wide range of other destinations that are notable for their scenery and diversity.

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is part of the state of Arizona, in the United States of America. It is a complex region of remarkable cultural, geological and scenic diversity despite its sparse population.

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is a region in Arizona, a state of the United States of America.

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West Arizona is a region in Arizona mostly with desert and mountains. It is west of and , north of the border with , , and east and the .

Arizona

Latitude of center
34.3953° or 34° 23′ 43″ north
Longitude of center
-111.7633° or 111° 45′ 48″ west
Population
7,580,000
Elevation
6,322 feet (1,927 metres)
Abbreviation
“AZ”
Abbreviation
“Ariz.”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316940520
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5551752
Wiki­data ID
Q816
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Arizona” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arizona”
  • Albanian: “Arizona”
  • Amharic: “አሪዞና”
  • Arabic: “آريزونا”
  • Arabic: “أرزونا”
  • Arabic: “أريزونا”
  • Aragonese: “Arizona”
  • Armenian: “Արիզոնա”
  • Arpitan: “Arizona”
  • Asturian: “Arizona”
  • Awadhi: “अराइजोना”
  • Aymara: “Arizona suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arizona”
  • Balinese: “Arizona”
  • Bashkir: “Аризона”
  • Basque: “Arizona”
  • Bavarian: “Arizona”
  • Belarusian: “Арызона”
  • Bengali: “অ্যারিজোনা”
  • Betawi: “Arisona”
  • Bhojpuri: “एरिजोना”
  • Bishnupriya: “অ্যারিজোনা”
  • Bislama: “Arizona”
  • Bosnian: “Arizona”
  • Breton: “Arizona”
  • Bulgarian: “Аризона”
  • Burmese: “အရီဇိုးနားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Arizona”
  • Cebuano: “Arizona”
  • Central Bikol: “Arizona”
  • Central Kanuri: “Arizona”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاریزۆنا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەریزۆنا”
  • Chavacano: “Arizona”
  • Chechen: “Аризона”
  • Cheyenne: “Arizona”
  • Chinese: “Arizona”
  • Chinese: “亚利桑那州”
  • Chinese: “亞利桑拿州”
  • Chinese: “亞利桑那州”
  • Chuvash: “Аризона”
  • Cornish: “Arisona”
  • Corsican: “Arizona”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Arizona”
  • Croatian: “Arizona”
  • Czech: “Arizona”
  • Czech: “State of Arizona”
  • Dagbani: “Arizona”
  • Danish: “Arizona”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Arizona”
  • Dutch: “Arizona”
  • Dutch: “AZ”
  • Dutch: “Copper State”
  • Dutch: “Grand Canyon State”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аризона”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аризоно”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اريزونا”
  • Esperanto: “Arizono”
  • Esperanto: “AZ”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Arizono”
  • Estonian: “Arizona”
  • Ewe: “Arizona”
  • Faroese: “Arizona”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Arizona”
  • Finnish: “Arizona”
  • French: “Arizona”
  • Gagauz: “Arizona”
  • Galician: “Arizona”
  • Gan Chinese: “亞利桑那州”
  • Georgian: “არიზონა”
  • German: “Arizona”
  • German: “AZ”
  • German: “Grand Canyon State”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Arizona”
  • Gilaki: “آريزؤنا”
  • Gilaki: “آریزونا”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌶𐍉𐌽𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌶𐍉𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αριζόνα”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία της Αριζόνας”
  • Guarani: “Arisóna”
  • Guarani: “Arizona”
  • Gujarati: “એરિઝોના”
  • Haitian: “Arizona”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Arizona”
  • Hausa: “Arizona”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Alikona”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAlikona”
  • Hebrew: “אריזונה”
  • Hindi: “एरीजोना”
  • Hungarian: “Arizona”
  • Icelandic: “Arizona”
  • Ido: “Arizona”
  • Igbo: “Arizona”
  • Iloko: “Arizona”
  • Inari Sami: “Arizona”
  • Indonesian: “Arizona, Amerika Serikat”
  • Indonesian: “Arizona”
  • Indonesian: “AZ”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Arizona”
  • Interlingua: “Arizona”
  • Interlingue: “Arizona”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᕇᓲᓈ”
  • Inupiaq: “Arisuuna”
  • Inupiaq: “Arizona”
  • Irish: “Arizona”
  • Italian: “Arizona”
  • Japanese: “アリゾナ州”
  • Javanese: “Arizona”
  • Kabiyè: “Ariizonaa”
  • Kabyle: “Arizona”
  • Kalmyk: “Аризон”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಿಜೋನ”
  • Kannada: “ಆರಿಜೋನ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arizona”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Аризона”
  • Kashmiri: “एरिजोना”
  • Kashubian: “Arizona”
  • Kazakh: “Аризона”
  • Kirghiz: “Аризона”
  • Komering: “Arizona”
  • Korean: “애리조나 주”
  • Korean: “애리조나”
  • Korean: “애리조나주”
  • Kurdish: “Arizona”
  • Kurdish: “Arîzona”
  • Ladin: “Arizona”
  • Ladino: “Arizona”
  • Latin: “Arizona”
  • Latvian: “Arizona”
  • Lezghian: “Аризона”
  • Ligurian: “Arizona”
  • Limburgan: “Arizona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Arizona”
  • Literary Chinese: “亞利桑那州”
  • Lithuanian: “Arizona”
  • Lombard: “Arizona”
  • Low German: “Arizona”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arizona”
  • Macedonian: “Аризона”
  • Maithili: “एरिजोना”
  • Malagasy: “Arizona”
  • Malay: “Arizona”
  • Malayalam: “അരിസോണ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯔꯤꯓꯣꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Arizona”
  • Maori: “Arerona”
  • Maori: “Arizona”
  • Marathi: “ॲरिझोना”
  • Mazanderani: “آریزونا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Arizona”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arizona”
  • Minangkabau: “Arizona”
  • Mingrelian: “არიზონა”
  • Mongolian: “Аризона”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أريزونا”
  • Nauru: “Arizona”
  • Navajo: “Hoozdo Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “एरिजोना”
  • Newari: “एरिजोना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arizona”
  • Northern Luri: “آریزونا”
  • Northern Sami: “Arizona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ariz.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arizona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “AZ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arizona”
  • Norwegian: “Arizona”
  • Novial: “Arizona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arizòna”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܝܙܘܢܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Arizona”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ārrisona”
  • Ossetian: “Аризонæ”
  • Pali: “अराइजोना”
  • Pampanga: “Arizona”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਰੀਜ਼ੋਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Arizona”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Arizona”
  • Persian: “آریزونا”
  • Persian: “ایالت گرند کنیون”
  • Picard: “Arizona”
  • Piemontese: “Arison-a”
  • Polish: “Arizona”
  • Portuguese: “Arizona”
  • Pushto: “اریزونا”
  • Quechua: “Arizona suyu”
  • Romanian: “Arizona”
  • Romanian: “US-AZ”
  • Romansh: “Arizona”
  • Russia Buriat: “Аризона”
  • Russian: “Аризона”
  • Samoan: “Arisona”
  • Samogitian: “Arizona”
  • Sanskrit: “आरिजोना”
  • Sanskrit: “आरिज़ोना”
  • Sardinian: “Arizona”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Arizona”
  • Scots: “Arizona”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arizona”
  • Serbian: “Аризона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arizona”
  • Sicilian: “Arizona”
  • Silesian: “Arizůna”
  • Sindhi: “ايرزونا”
  • Sindhi: “ايريزونا”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරිසෝනා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Arizona”
  • Slovak: “Arizona”
  • Slovenian: “Ariz.”
  • Slovenian: “Arizona”
  • Slovenian: “AZ”
  • Slovenian: “Država Velikega kanjona”
  • Slovenian: “Grand Canyon State”
  • Slovenian: “State of Arizona”
  • Slovenian: “Zvezna država Arizona”
  • Somali: “Arizona”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آریزونا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آریزونا”
  • Spanish: “Arizona (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Arizona”
  • Spanish: “AZ”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Gran Cañón”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Arizona”
  • Spanish: “Talaith y Gran Cañón”
  • Swahili: “Arizona”
  • Swedish: “Arizona”
  • Tagalog: “Arisona”
  • Tagalog: “Arizona”
  • Tajik: “Аризона”
  • Talysh: “Arizona”
  • Tamil: “அரிசோனா”
  • Tamil: “அரிஸ்ஓணா”
  • Tatar: “Аризона”
  • Telugu: “ఆరిజోనా”
  • Thai: “รัฐแอริโซนา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨྰ་རི་ཟོ་ནྰ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Arizona”
  • Turkish: “Ariz.”
  • Turkish: “Arizona eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Arizona, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Arizona”
  • Turkish: “AZ”
  • Turkish: “State of Arizona”
  • Turkish: “US-AZ”
  • Turkmen: “Arizona”
  • Uighur: “Arizona Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Аризона”
  • Ukrainian: “Арізона”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Arizona”
  • Urdu: “ایریزونا”
  • Uzbek: “Arizona”
  • Venetian: “Arizona”
  • Vietnamese: “Arizona”
  • Vlaams: “Arizona”
  • Vlax Romani: “Arizona”
  • Volapük: “Arizona”
  • Volapük: “Larizonän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arizona”
  • Welsh: “Arizona”
  • Western Armenian: “Արիզոնա”
  • Western Frisian: “Arizona”
  • Western Mari: “Аризона”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایریزونا”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚利桑那州”
  • Xhosa: “I-Erizona”
  • Yakut: “Аризона”
  • Yiddish: “אריזאנע”
  • Yoruba: “Arizona”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞利桑拿州”
  • Zeeuws: “Arizona”
  • Zhuang: “Arizona”
  • Zulu: “Arizona”
  • “Ariśòna”
  • “Arizona”
  • “ma Elisona”
  • “ma Ewisona”
  • “एरिजोना”

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