Summer States No. 38 - Colorado

     Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of Nations Made Fun! I'll be your host, Mr. Nations, your tour guide to this magnificent world we all live in! Today we'll be taking a look at Colorado, the thirty-eighth state of the United States. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's dive straight into it, shall we?

     Colorado Facts:

• Date of Statehood: August 1, 1876
• Capital: Denver
• Population: 5,029,196 (2010)
• Size: 104,094 square miles
• Motto: Nil sine Numine (“Nothing without the Deity”)
• Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce
• Flower: White and Lavender Columbine
• Bird: Lark Bunting 

     Fun Facts:

• The United States Air Force Academy is located in Colorado.
• Colorado claims to be the home of the cheeseburger because the patent "Cheeseburger" was given to Louis Ballast in 1935.
• The United States Federal Government owns more than a 1/3 of the land in Colorado.

     Colorado on a map:

     

     Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/colorado

     https://www.50states.com/facts/colorado.htm