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Regional
Fun Facts
Kids'
Corner
Did you know that the Denver Region:
- has
the most states of any region. Ten in fact: Arizona,
Colorado,
Montana,
Nebraska,
Nevada,
New
Mexico, North
Dakota, South
Dakota, Utah,
and Wyoming.
- stretches
from the Canadian to the Mexican border. (Montana to New Mexico
and Arizona)
- includes
the state with the highest percentage of Hispanic population
in the U.S. In New Mexico, the Hispanic population is 42.1%
of its total.
- includes
76% of all American Indians living on reservation lands and
has the ten largest American Indian Reservations in the country.
- includes
three states (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada) that gained representation
in Congress after Census 2000.
- has the
top four growth states in the country (1990 2000).
These are Nevada (66.3%); Arizona (40%); Colorado (30.6%);
and Utah (29.6%).
- contains
the least populated state in the U.S. (Wyoming).
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