AZArizona
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$15
The place
Joined 1912 · 48th state · Not yet a state in the Civil War · Mountain, no DST time
Arizona is a young state built on an old landscape, admitted in 1912 and shaped since by air conditioning, retirees and water it does not have. The Sonoran desert is the most biologically busy desert on earth, and the saguaro that everybody draws grows nowhere else. Phoenix sprawls, Tucson resists, and the Navajo Nation is larger than ten states. Go for the Grand Canyon, obviously, but the more affecting drive is the road up to Flagstaff, where you climb out of cactus into ponderosa pine in about an hour.
Does not observe daylight saving, and has declined to since 1968.
Eat
Sonoran hot dog
Drink
Four Peaks Brewing
Listen
Alice Cooper
Bird
Cactus wren
Flower
Saguaro blossom
Tree
Palo verde
Grows
Lettuce, Cotton, Citrus
National parks
- Grand Canyon
- Petrified Forest
- Saguaro
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 7,623,818
- Land area
- 113,655 mi²
- GDP per head
- $78,463
- Median household
- $81,404
- Joined
- Joined 1912
- Civil War
- Not yet a state
Largest cities
- 1Phoenix1.67M
- 2Tucson554K
- 3Mesa517K
- 4Gilbert289K
- 5Chandler281K
Race
- White78.5%
- Black5.9%
- Native5.6%
Hispanic or Latino32.5%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $15 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.