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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state of the western United States.
USS Wyoming was named in honor of this state.
After the Union Pacific Railroad reached the town of Cheyenne, the capital, in 1867, the population began to grow steadily in the Wyoming Territory, established in 1868. Wyoming was admitted to statehood on July 10, 1890. It was the first state in the U.S. to extend suffrage to women. Wyoming was also the first state to elect a woman governor.List of Wyoming Governors.
See: List of Wyoming counties
It is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, and on the west by Utah and Idaho.
The Wyoming municipalities with populations over 10000 are, in descending order:
- Area: 97,818 sq. miles
- Population: 493,782 (2000)
- Capital: Cheyenne
- Counties: 23 (see: List of Wyoming counties)
- Bird: Western Meadowlark[?]
- Flower: Indian Paintbrush[?]
- Tree: Cottonwood
Wyoming is also the name of several places in the United States of America:
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