Home to nearly 30 million people, including 15 percent of the nation's Native American population, and more than 600 miles of coastline -- not to mention the first woman elected governor in the United States*, the original London Bridge**, and hundreds of 100-million-year-old dinosaur footprints***.

*Texas Gov. Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson, in 1924
**reassembled in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., in 1971
***at Clayton Lake State Park in Clayton, N.M.

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