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Western Wyoming Community College is located in Rock Springs and has an extended campus center in Green River, Wyoming, along with other outreach centers across southwest Wyoming. [3] The boundaries of the college district, with those of the county, enclose 10,473 square miles (27,120 km 2 ) in the southwestern part of the state.
Wyoming (/ w aɪ ˈ oʊ m ɪ ŋ / ⓘ wye-OH-ming) [9] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
Big Horn Mountains, a mountain range extending into northern Wyoming: 12,018: 3,137 sq mi (8,125 km 2) Campbell County: 005: Gillette: 1911: Parts of Weston County and Crook County. John Allen Campbell (1835–80), first governor of the Wyoming Territory (1869–75) 47,498: 4,797 sq mi (12,424 km 2) Carbon County: 007: Rawlins: 1868: One of the ...
A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
Wyoming is a state in the Western United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Wyoming is the least populous state with 576,851 inhabitants but the 9th largest by land area spanning 97,093.14 square miles (251,470.1 km 2) of land. [1] Wyoming has 23 counties and 99 municipalities consisting of cities and towns. [1]
Rock Springs is the site of Western Wyoming Community College and Wyoming's Big Show, a yearly event with a carnival and concerts which is held at the Sweetwater County Events Complex. [6] Rock Springs is located in an energy-rich region with many oil and natural gas wells.
Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains , while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High ...
The Wyoming Range is a mountain range located in western Wyoming. It is a range of the Rocky Mountains that runs north-south near the western edge of the state. Its highest peak is Wyoming Peak , which stands at 11,383 feet (3,470 m) above sea-level . [ 1 ]