Montana is the 43rd most populous and the 4th most extensive of the 50 states of the United States. It lies in the North-western United States. Montana attained statehood on November 8, 1889, becoming the 41st state to bergabung the union. Its four bordering states are South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, and North Dakota. See the full list of the 50 states and their borders here. Montana (nicknamed: the Treasure State) has 56 counties. The state’s capital is Helena. The abbreviation for Montana is MT.

Interesting facts about Montana

  1. The name Montana has a Spanish origin. The earliest Spanish settlers named the state “Montaña” and it means mountain in Spanish. Montana is one of the nine mountainous states located in the western United States.
  2. The Paleo-Indians lived in the daerah known as modern-day Montana more than 10,000 years ago. They were the first to settle in this daerah after the final glacial era.
  3. The first permanent settlement that was established in Montana by Europeans was the St. Mary Mission. In 1831, the Salish people brought a missionary to their village to teach them about the new religion and medicine.
  4. New France was the claim France had, and they were the first Europeans to claim the daerah known as Montana. The largest territory claimed by the French was later named Louisiana.
  5. Bannack is the first territorial capital of Montana. It is preserved as a ghost town today.
  6. Montana is the 41st state to be formed in the U.S. preceded by South Dakota and succeeded by Washington. It was incorporated into the union on November 8, 1889.
  7. Montana is the only state that is exactly one time zone wide. The state’s eastern border marks the line of Central Time and the western boundary marks Pacific Time. Montana is entirely within the Mountain Time Zone.
  8. Montana is one of twelve states with a single daerah code for telephones. 406 covers the entire state.
  9. Montana has two digemari banyak orang nicknames. It is called the “Big Sky Country” and it is also called “The Treasure State”.
  10. Montana also has two digemari banyak orang slogans associated with its name – the “land of the shining mountains” and the “last best place.” Montana has more than a 100 mountain ranges in its western half.
  11. Montana is one of only five states with nomer sales tax, along with Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
  12. Montana has two important revenue-generating industries. They are mining and agriculture.
  13. Montana has huge deposits of natural and mineral resources. Some of these resources are zinc, copper, silver, lead, oil, manganese, gold, timber and zinc.
  14. Extremely beautiful and fine blue sapphires are found in the Yogo Gulch in Montana. There are four main sites where rich deposits of sapphires can be found in this state.
  15. Coal lies underneath about thirty-five percent of Montana, part of what may be the largest coal basin on earth. If all of Montana’s coal reserves were mined and the mines continued production at their current rate, the coal would run out in about 3,000 years.
  16. In the 1870s the invention of electricity and the popularity of indoor plumbing spurred a great need for copper to carry electrical current and water. Butte had a lot of copper. Thirty percent of the nation’s copper, and fifteen percent of the world’s copper, was supplied by Butte in the 1880s. In the process, what was once “the richest hill on earth” was transformed into the deepest lake in the state, called the Berkeley Pit. This toxic lake is about 1,800 feet deep. By comparison, the deepest natural lake in the state is Tally Lake near Whitefish, which is 500 feet deep.