Known as Navajo Code Talkers, these young men created an oral code the enemy was unable to decipher, fulfilling a crucial role during World War II and saving countless lives | Arizona has the greatest percentage of its acreage designated as Indian tribal land in the United States |
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It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states | The official state flower, the Saguaro Cactus Blossom, can reach more than 50 feet tall and live more than 200 years |
state in the southwestern region of the United States.
26Arizona is one of only two U | Its population has always been predominantly urban, particularly since the mid-20th century, when urban and suburban areas began growing rapidly at the expense of the countryside |
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Arizona is one of the Four Corners states | Arizona's border with Mexico is 389 miles 626 km long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California |
Arizona is the sixth largest state in the country in terms of area.
18Marines after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 | Arizona, the Grand Canyon state, achieved statehood on February 14, 1912, the last of the 48 coterminous United States to be admitted to the union |
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states that do not observe Daylight Saving Time | Navajo Indians from Arizona were enlisted to transmit secret communications for the U |
It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states.
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