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Oklahoma (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 098 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -98.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Had Clovis and Folsom cultures 13,000 BCE; other advanced cultures thrived 500-1300 CE; Wichita, Osage, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and others were here when Spanish & French came 16-18th cen.; in Louisiana Purchase; tribes from N and E were forced here in 19th cen. |
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| Oklahoma (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name given to area by a Choctaw chief in 1866, meaning "people-red" (i.e., "Amerindian Territory") |
| OK (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since November 16, 1907 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Oklahoma City .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, North and Central America, United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma county) [7013953] |
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