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State nickname: Equality State | |||||
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| Capital | Cheyenne | ||||
| Largest City | Cheyenne | ||||
| Governor | Dave Freudenthal | ||||
| Area - Total - Land - Water - % water |
Ranked 10th | ||||
| Population - Total (2000) |
Ranked 50th 493,782 | ||||
| Admittance into Union - Order |
44th July 10, 1890 | ||||
| Time zone | Mountain: UTC-7/-6 | ||||
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41°N to 45°N | ||||
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450 km | ||||
| ISO 3166-2: | US-WY | ||||
Wyoming is a state of the western United States. It is the least populous U.S. state.
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 on July 25, 1868.
In 1869 Wyoming extended suffrage to women, at least partially in an attempt to garner enough voters to be admitted as a state. It was admitted to the Union on July 10, 1890.
In addition to being the first U.S. state to extend suffrage to women, Wyoming was also the home of many other firsts for U.S. women in politics. It had the first female court bailiff and the first female justice of the peace in the country. Wyoming was also the first state in the Union to elect a woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross in 1925. A List of Wyoming Governors is available.
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. Devil's Tower, made famous in the film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, is located near Moorcroft in Crook County.
The Wyoming municipalities with populations over 10,000 are, in descending order:
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