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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Travel Day -> AZ, AK & HI

48. Arizona is one of the Four Corners states. Arizona has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, and it has one point in common with the southwestern corner of Colorado. Arizona has a 389-mile (626 km)-long international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.

Admission into the union: February 14, 1912
Capital: Phoenix
Abbreviation: AZ
Nickname: The Grand Canyon State

CLICK HERE FOR FUN FACTS ABOUT ARIZONA

The world’s best preserved meteorite impact site just minutes from Interstate 40 in Northern Arizona near Winslow. Meteor Crater is the breath-taking result of a collision between a piece of an asteroid traveling at 26,000 miles per hour and planet Earth approximately 50,000 years ago.CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE METEOR CRATER

CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES OF ARIZONA'S DESERT FOOTHILLS

CLICK HERE FOR A SLIDESHOW OF THE GRAND CANYON

49. Alaska is a state in the United States, situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with the international boundary with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 731,449[4] residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

Admission into the union: January 3, 1959
Capital: Juneau
Abbreviation: AK
Nickname: “The Last Frontier”, because of its opportunities and many lightly settled regions

CLICK HERE FOR FUN FACTS ABOUT ALASKA

CLICK HERE TO VIEW A SLIDESHOW OF ALASKA

Did you know that there is a rainforest reserve in Alaska? CLICK HERE TO VIEW PICTURES

50. Hawaii is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states (joined the Union on August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.

Admission into the union: August 21, 1959
Capital: Honolulu
Abbreviation: HI
Nickname: the Aloha State
CLICK HERE FOR FUN FACTS ABOUT HAWAII

Did you know that Hawaiian is the official language of Hawaii? CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

CLICK HERE TO VIEW A SLIDESHOW OF HAWAII

CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT PEARL HARBOR

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