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Oklahoma
The state of Oklahoma can be found in the South Central region of the United States of America. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people", and is known unofficially by its nickname, The Sooner State. Created from the Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to be included the union.
A foremost producer of food, natural gas and oil, Oklahoma depends on an economic support of energy, biotechnology, telecommunications, and aviation. It has one of the fastest rising economies in the nation, ranking amongst the top states in per capita income development and gross domestic product development. Tulsa and Oklahoma City serve as Oklahoma's main economic anchors, with nearly 60 percent of Oklahomans livelihood in their metropolitan arithmetical areas. The state holds a assorted record in healthcare and education, and its largest universities involved in the NAIA and NCAA athletic associations, with two unworldly athletic departments rated among the most triumphant in American history.
With small mountain ranges, eastern forests, and grassland, most of Oklahoma resides in the U.S. Interior Highlands and the Great Plains—a region particularly prone to rigorous weather. With a dominance of Native American, Irish, English and German ancestry, more than 25 Native American dialects are spoken in Oklahoma, the most of any other state. It is located on a convergence of three major American cultural regions and traditionally served a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans, a destination for southern settlers, and as a route for cattle drives. Part of the Bible Belt, extensive belief in evangelical Christianity makes it one of the most conservatively political states.
Oklahoma is located between the Ozark Plateau in the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Great Plains, commonly slanting from the high plains of its western border line to the low marshland of its southeastern state line. Its lowest and highest points follow this fashion, Black Mesa,with its highest peak at 1,516 m (4,973 feet) above sea level, positioned near its far northwest area in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The lowest point is on the Little River close to its far southeastern border line, which dips to 88 m (289 feet) above sea level.
Among the most geologically diverse states, Oklahoma is one of four to harbor greater than 10 distinct ecological regions, with 11 in its boundaries — more per square mile than in any state. Its eastern and western halves, however, are manifest by great differences in geographical range: Eastern Oklahoma touches eight environmental regions and its western half touches three.
Oklahoma has four primary mountain ranges: the Ozark Mountains, the Arbuckle Mountains, the Wichita Mountains, and the Ouachita Mountains. Surrounded inside the U.S. Interior Highlands region, the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains mark the only foremost mountainous region between the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains. A section of the Flint Hills reached out into north-central Oklahoma, and in the state's southeastern corner, Cavanal Hill is on the record regarded as the world's tallest hill; at 609 m (1,999 feet), it fails the meaning of a mountain by one foot.
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