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| Capital | Helena | ||||
| Largest City | Billings | ||||
| Governor | Brian Schweitzer | ||||
| Area - Total - Land - Water - % water | Ranked 4th 381,156 km² 377,295 km² 3,862 km² 1% | ||||
| Population - Total ( 2000) - Density | Ranked 44thThis is a list of U. states by population . The data is from the United States Census Bureau and is current as of mid-year 2000. For reference, the population of the entire United States is approximately 293,000,000. California 33,871,640 # Texas 20,851,8 902,194 2.4/km² | ||||
| Admittance into UnionThis is a list of U. States by order of admission into the Union. Date ratified United States Constitution to join United States of America or date admitted to Union. See also by date of statehood. - Order - Date | 41th November 8November 8 is the 312nd day of the year (313rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. Events 1519 Hernan Cortes enters Tenochtitlan and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. 1520 Stoc, 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t |
Mountain: UTC-7/ -6Daylight saving time (also called DST or Summer Time is the local time a region is designated for a portion of the year, usually an hour forward from its standard official time. It is a system intended to "save" daylight (as opposed to wasting it by, say, | ||||
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44°26' N to 49° NThe 49th parallel of north latitude forms part of the International Boundary between Canada and the United States from Manitoba to British Columbia on the Canadian side and from Minnesota to Washington on the U. Its use as a border is a result of the Angl | ||||
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450 km | ||||
| ISO 3166-2: | US-MT | ||||
Montana is a western state of the United States. The name of Montana probably comes from the Spanish word "montaña" which means "mountain". Montana has the largest concentration of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. Montana was the first state to elect a woman to the United States Congress, Jeannette Rankin. Montana is also home to the shortest river in the world, the Roe River. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is MT.
USS Montana was named in honor of this state.