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Northern Arizona has various points of interest. The area is known for its variety of outdoor recreation opportunities, hiking trails and forest service roads, extreme topographical and environmental variability, and its geologic and human history. The following is a list of popular attractions in
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make up 48% of the population in Coconino County, Navajo County, and Apache County. Ruins of the ancient Anasazi, Sinagua, and other Puebloan people can be found in northern Arizona.
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The area is known for its rugged landscape and variety of environment. Northern Arizona is home to millions of acres of
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reservations, parts of which overlap, leading to occasional territorial disputes.
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The region features several mountain ranges, including the state's highest, the
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is an unofficial, colloquially defined region of the U.S. state of
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The Arizona Strip is the segment of Arizona to the north of the
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is in the west. The central portion of northern Arizona has the
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is the largest city in northern Arizona. Other cities include
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since at least the construction of what are now the ruins at
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students are Arizonans, with 66% being Arizona residents.
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counties, the region is geographically dominated by the
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Northern Arizona consists of five different counties:
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Northeast Arizona is also home to the 372:Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument 138: 382:Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument 14: 1448: 613:exhibits parts of the barren colorful 744: 770: 511:Northeast Arizona commonly includes 506: 65:adding citations to reliable sources 36: 397:Vermillion Cliffs National Monument 24: 600:Canyon de Chelly National Monument 367:Canyon de Chelly National Monument 25: 1467: 626:Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest 27:Region of the US state of Arizona 1397: 671: 646: 41: 1318:Aztec Land & Cattle Company 387:Walnut Canyon National Monument 196: 52:needs additional citations for 723: 699: 611:Petrified Forest National Park 584:Fort Apache Indian Reservation 566:It is the location of several 362:Petrified Forest National Park 13: 1: 692: 501: 1057:San Francisco Volcanic Field 444:San Francisco Volcanic Field 351:National Parks and Monuments 253: 7: 711:Northern Arizona University 664: 486:Northern Arizona University 248:Northern Arizona University 32:Northern Arizona University 10: 1472: 650: 639: 481:Museum of Northern Arizona 357:Grand Canyon National Park 165:. Generally consisting of 29: 1393: 1303: 1185: 1097: 1047:Phoenix Metropolitan Area 967: 896: 841:Congressional Delegations 794: 782: 392:Wupatki National Monument 219:Much of the territory is 596:Navajo National Monument 377:Navajo National Monument 30:For the university, see 1323:Battle of Ambos Nogales 572:Zuni Indian Reservation 301:(roughly following the 297:. 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