Colorado ( /klrdo/,[8] or /klrdo/[9]) (Spanish for "ruddy") is a

state in the United States encompassing most of the Southern Rocky

Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau
and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the
Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the
Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most
populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau
estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,456,574 on July 1,
2015, an increase of 8.50% since the 2010 United States Census.[2]
The state was named for the Colorado River, which Spanish travelers
named the Ro Colorado for the ruddy (Spanish: colorado) silt the river
carried from the mountains. The Territory of Colorado was organized on
February 28, 1861, and on August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S.
Grant signed Proclamation 230 admitting Colorado to the Union as the
38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it
became a state in the same year as the centennial of the United States
Declaration of Independence.
Colorado is bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the
northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico
to the south, Utah to the west, and Arizona to the southwest, at the Four
Corners. Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests,
high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands.
Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. Residents
of the state are properly known as "Coloradans", although the term
"Coloradoan" has been used archaically and lives on in the title of Fort
Collins' newspaper, the Coloradoan.[10][11]
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