There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Alpine, and Tucson. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees the Colorado Plateau mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains) as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers and mild winters. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.Īrizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912.

It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Arizona ( / ˌ ær ɪ ˈ z oʊ n ə/ ( listen) ARR-ih- ZOH-nə Navajo: Hoozdo Hahoodzo Navajo pronunciation: O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak) is a state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions.

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