Arizona, probably not what you thought

Arizona is a land of contrasts and extremes, but it is likely that there are a lot of things you didn't know about this, the sixth largest state.

The U.S. Census Bureau gives some of the following facts:

• Arizona had a population in 2006 of 6,166,318 people.
• The Arizona population increased 20.1 percent from 2000 to 2006.
• Only 4.8 percent of the Arizona population is classified as Native American but 29.2 percent are Hispanic or Latino in origin and 25.9 percent speak a language other than English at home.
  
• The median household income was $43,696 in 2004.
• Arizona averages 45.2 people per square mile out of 114,006 square miles.
  

Arizona's capital, Phoenix, is the fifth largest city in the United States. Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston are larger. Eight of Arizona's ten largest cities surround Phoenix in the Phoenix/Mesa Metroplex with a total population of 2,931,004 in 1999.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/04000.html

The highest point in Arizona is Humphreys Peak (one of the San Francisco Peaks) at 12,633 feet. The lowest point is near Yuma only 70 feet above sea level. The highest temperature ever recorded was 128 degrees F. at Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994. The lowest temperature was -40 degrees F. at Hawley Lake.

More later.