Wyoming is a state of the western United States. While the eastern third of the state is within the Great Plains, the majority is dominated by numerous distinct mountain ranges and rangelands. Wyoming is also the least populous U.S. state with 509,294 people. The capital and largest city of Wyoming is Cheyenne. Residents of the state are called Wyomingites.

Geography

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Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana; on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska; on the south by Colorado; and on the west by Utah and Idaho. Devil's Tower, made famous in the film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, is located near Moorcroft in Crook County. Wyoming is one of three states entirely bounded by straight lines. It is the eleventh largest state in the United States containing 97,818 square miles (253,348 sq km) and is made up of 23 counties. From the north border to the south border it is 276 miles (444 km); and from the east to the west border is 375 miles (603 km).

The Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming. The state is a great plateau broken by a number of important mountain ranges. In the northwest are the Absaroka, the Owl Creek, Wyoming, Gros Ventre, Wind River and the Teton ranges. In the north central are the Big Horns; in the northeast, the Black Hills; and in the southern portion of Wyoming, the Laramie, Medicine Bow and Sierra Madre ranges.

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Schiffer wins handily; Patton takes Republican slot to replace Iekel
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
Legislative veteran John Schiffer, R-Kaycee, appears to have hung on to the Senate District 22 seat for another term.
Zwonitzer, Pedersen easily advance
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
CHEYENNE -- Rep. David Zwonitzer and former state lawmaker Bryan Pedersen, both of Cheyenne, easily defeated their opponents in Tuesday's Republican primary election races for the state House of Representatives.
Barbuto wins close, Stough wins big
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
GREEN RIVER -- Perhaps the youngest state candidate in Wyoming this year is headed to Cheyenne after Democrat Joe Barbuto narrowly defeated Tony Herrera in the House District 48 primary election Tuesday night.
Wyo tribe mourns 3 teens, loss of cultural ties
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the road.
Wyoming briefs
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:39:18 -0600
Group hopes to leave with Bibles SHERIDAN n After holding out in China for three days, four members of Sheridan-based Vision Beyond Borders plan to leave for Thailand today and hope to take 315 Bibles that were confiscated by Chinese customs officials with them.
China confiscates Sheridan group's Bibles
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:08 -0600
SHERIDAN -- Four members of Sheridan-based Vision Beyond Borders are holding out in a Kunming, China, hotel, hoping and praying their confiscated Bibles will be returned and they will be allowed to distribute them to Chinese Christians.

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