Arizona Abbreviation

What is the abbreviation for Arizona state?

AZ is the 2 letter abbreviation for Arizona, the 14th largest state in the United States of America. Arizona is a state located in West part of U.S.A, bordering California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Phoenix is the capital city of Arizona. Major cities include Phoenix (Population: 1563036), Tucson (Population: 531652), Mesa (Population: 471836), Chandler (Population: 260839), Gilbert (Population: 247553), Glendale (Population: 240137), Scottsdale (Population: 236850), Maryvale (Population: 208200), Tempe (Population: 175837), Peoria (Population: 171248), Deer Valley (Population: 165667), and Tempe Junction (Population: 158379).

Arizona State Profile

• Capital: Phoenix
• Admitted to USA: 1912
• Area: 295,234 km²
• Population: 7,278,717
• Time zone: GMT-7
• Calling code: 480, 520, 602, 623, 928
• ISO 2-Letter Postal Abbreviation:  AZ
• State Government Website: http://www.az.gov/

Overview

Arizona was ceded from Mexico to the United States in 1848 and declared the 48th state on February 14, 1912. Its name is derived from “arizonac”, a word from the language of the Papago Indians, and means “place of the small spring”. Arizona’s neighboring states are California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Arizona is one of the four Four Corners states, and Arizona’s two nicknames are The Grand Canyon State and The Copper State. Arizona is one of the wealthiest states in the United States. It has numerous mineral resources. Its agriculture and industry are well developed. Extensive irrigation systems have made the former desert land fertile.

Arizona has around 6.5 million inhabitants. The capital of the 295,254 km² state is Phoenix with 1.6 million inhabitants in the city itself – and 4.4 million in the metropolitan region. Arizona is particularly famous among tourists for its desert landscapes and canyons.

The state is considered extremely conservative and religious. So on January 8, 2011, the democratic MP and Jewess Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by an assassin. She survived the attack, seriously injured, and six other victims died. Arizona borders Mexico to the south, California to the southwest, and Nevada to the northwest. The Utah border runs to the north. The border with Colorado runs in the northeast and the one with New Mexico in the east. Here at “Four Corners’ Point” the last three states meet with Arizona and form the only four-country corner of the USA. The opposing candidate for President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election was John Sidney McCain III (born 1936) of the Republican Party, and he has also been a Senator for the State of Arizona since 1987.

Cities and larger towns

Phoenix
Phoenix is ​​the capital of the US state of Arizona. The actual city has around 1.6 million inhabitants and the metropolitan area even 4.4 million inhabitants. This makes Phoenix the largest city in the state and the metropolitan region is the fifth largest in the United States. Phoenix is ​​located in Central Arizona in the Valley of the Sun and is traversed by the Salt River. It is therefore not surprising that the sun shines in Phoenix on an average of more than 300 days a year. The city was founded, or rather officially recognized, in 1865. The city was initially a small agricultural community. The Phoenix comes from the fact that a Hohokam settlement already existed in this area and thus Phoenix as well as Phoenix rose from its axis. Nowadays the city is the political one cultural and economic center of the country and the main transportation hub in Arizona. Over the years, the rapidly growing city has grown together with the neighboring municipalities, so that a total of 27 can now be counted in the metropolitan area. These include 7 of the state’s 10 largest cities:

• Chandler, with approximately 230,000 inhabitants.
• Gilbert, with approximately 170,000 inhabitants.
• Glendale, with approximately 240,000 inhabitants.
• Mesa, with approximately 440,000 inhabitants.
• Peoria, with approximately 140,000 inhabitants.
• Scottsdale, with approximately 230,000 inhabitants.
• Tempe, with approximately 160,000 inhabitants.

Together, these cities are also known as the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area.

Flagstaff
The city of Flagstaff is located in the north of the state of Arizona and is characterized, among other things, by its proximity to the Grand Canyon. Around 60,000 people live in the city and around 127,000 people in the metropolitan region. The area around Flagstaff is dominated by mountains, for example, the mountain range of the San Francisco Peaks is north of the city. This ensures that Flagstaff is visited by mountain bikers in summer and skiers in winter. Flagstaff has good transport links, so the city has an Amtrakbahnhof (Southwest Chief), several long-distance bus connections and an airport. The city is located on the old Route 66. Flagstaff not only serves as a starting point for the Grand Canyon, but is also characterized by its proximity to other attractions such as

Tucson
The city of Tucson, located in southern Arizona, has approximately 585,000 inhabitants and approximately 1 million people live in the metropolitan region. This makes Tucson the largest city in the south of the state and the second largest in the state after Phoenix. The local comes from the Tohono-O’Odham Indian language and means something like “black foothills”. The area can already be settled around 12,000 BC. and the “modern” Tucson was founded in 1775 by a Spanish fort. The city is connected to long-distance traffic via an Amtrakbahnhof (Sunset Limited) and has an international airport (TUS). Due to its proximity to the Mexican border, Tucson is a good starting point for trips to Mexico and trips to the Saguaro National Park surrounding the city. Due to the close proximity to Mexico, a lot of Hispanic heritage can still be seen in Tucson. The residents of the city, about 20% are Spanish speakers, make the city special.

Aircraft
cemetery In the area of ​​the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) in Tucson there are around 4,200 different military aircraft that are mothballed here or used as spare parts stores.

Sedona
The city of Sedona in central Arizona, about 25 km south of Flagstaff and about 190 km north of Phoenix, has about 11,000 inhabitants. The city was founded in 1902 and bears the name of the wife of the owner of the first post station. The city of Sedona can certainly be described as a tourist destination in Arizona because between 2 and 3 million visitors flock to the city each year. This is mainly due to the scenic charm of the area, which with its red sandstone formations conveys a feeling of the “Wild West” like hardly any other city. The city also attracts many visitors who visit the city due to the so-called New Age movement. Today the city of Sedona is the center of the New Age movement, a movement that is very much related to the esoteric and spiritual from the hippie movement. This is probably due to the fact that the mountains and rock formations around Sedona are said to have special spiritual powers.

Yuma
Yuma, with its approximately 90,000 inhabitants, is located in the extreme southwest of the state of Arizona on the Colorado River near the border with Mexico and California. The discovery of the place by the Spaniards took place in 1540 and until 1854 the city belonged to Mexico. The city also changed its name several times in its history. It was called Colorado City from 1854 to 1858 and Arizona City from 1858 to 1873. The place is mainly known for its excellent weather. Yuma has the most hours of sunshine a year worldwide and the average temperature is an incredible 23.4 ° C. This ensures that many retirees choose Yuma as a place to retire. It is well connected in terms of transport technology and has an international airport, Yuma International Airport (YUM).

List of Arizona Acronyms

The most commonly used abbreviations about Arizona are AZ which stands for Arizona. In the following table, you can see all acronyms related to Arizona, including abbreviations for airport, city, school, port, government, and etc.

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