With a population of nearly one million, Tucson is the largest city in southern Arizona and the second largest in the state. In earlier times, there was only a military base of the Spanish Empire, later Tucson became the capital of Arizona. Today, Tucson is the seat of Pima County. The English name Tucson comes…
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Arizona
Introduction Arizona (abbr.: AZ or Ariz.), state of the United States of America, in the southwest, 295,023 km2, with 3.6 million inhabitants; capital city: Phoenix. Physical Geography Arizona consists of three parts: in the north the horizontally stratified Colorado Plateau (here up to 2200 m high), in which the Colorado and its tributaries have carved…