Oklahoma

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**Interesting Information on Okalahoma by Jen Black **
> > > > > > > **//STATE FACTS:// > State Motto**: Labor Omnia Vincit (Labor Conquers All Things) > **State Colors:** Green and White > **State Tree:** Redbud (Cercis Canadensis) > **State Animal:** American Buffalo (Bison) > **State Bird:** Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Muscivora Forficata) > **State Fish:** White Bass (Sand Bass) (Morone Chrysops) > **State Flower:** Mistletoe (Phoradendron Serotinum) > **State Rock:** Rose Rock (Barite Rose) > **State Nickname:** Sooner State > **State Reptile:** Mountain Boomer (Collared Lizard) = = =
 * The name "Oklahoma" comes from the Choctaw words: "okla" meaning people and "humma" meaning red, so the state's name literally means "red people."
 * Oklahoma has the largest American Indian population of any state. Many of the 252,420 American Indians living in Oklahoma today are descendants from the original 67 tribes inhabiting Indian Territory.
 * Thirty-nine of the American Indian tribes currently living in Oklahoma are headquartered in the state.
 * The governor of Oklahoma is Brad Henry (took office in January 2003); the lieutenant governor is Mary Fallin.
 * Oklahoma's bipartisan state government houses a bicameral legislature.
 * Oklahoma has 43 colleges and universities.
 * The highest point in the state is Black Mesa in Cimarron County (4,973 feet); the lowest is due east of Idabel in McCurtain County (287 feet).
 * Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water and 2,000 more miles of shoreline than the Atlantic and Gulf coasts combined.
 * Oklahoma is the third largest gas-producing state in the nation.
 * Oklahoma ranks fourth in the nation in the production of all wheat, fourth in cattle and calf production; fifth in the production of pecans; sixth in peanuts and eighth in peaches.
 * Oklahoma's four mountain ranges include the Ouachitas, Arbuckles, Wichitas and the Kiamichis.
 * Forests cover approximately 24 percent of Oklahoma
 * Oklahoma is bordered by six states: Texas to the south and west, Arkansas and Missouri to the east, Kansas to the north and Colorado and New Mexico at the tip of the northwestern Oklahoma panhandle.
 * Oklahoma is comprised of 77 counties.
 * Oklahoma has a land area of 69,919 square miles and ranks 18 in the nation in size.
 * According to 1990 U.S. census data, Oklahoma's population is 3,258,000. Of those, 82.1 percent are white, 8 percent American Indian, 7.4 percent African American, 2.7 percent Hispanic and 1.1 percent Asian.
 * Oklahoma's two most populous cities are Oklahoma City, with 463,201 residents, and Tulsa with 374,851. The next largest cities are Norman, with a population of 87,290 and Lawton, which has 86,028 people.