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Oklahoma (state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 35.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 098 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -98.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Had Clovis and Folsom cultures 13,000 BCE; other advanced cultures thrived 500-1300 CE; Wichita, Osage, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and others were here when Spanish & French came 16-18th cen.; in Louisiana Purchase; tribes from N and E were forced here in 19th cen.
Names:
Oklahoma (preferred C ,V ,English ) ............ name given to area by a Choctaw chief in 1866, meaning "people-red" (i.e., "Amerindian Territory") Oklahoma Spanish )Oklahoma French )OK (C ,V ,CD )Оклахомæ (C ,U ,Ossetian/Ossetic )Estado de Oklahoma (C ,U ,Spanish )Оклаhома (C ,U ,Yakut )Halgai Hóteel Hahoodzo (C ,U ,Navajo )Heévȧhetanéno (C ,U ,Cheyenne )Oclahoma (C ,U ,Latin )Oclaoma (C ,U ,Portuguese )‘Okalahoma (C ,U ,Hawaiian )O-khiet-lâ-hò-mâ (C ,U ,Chinese, Hakka )Oklahoma suyu (C ,U ,Ayamará )Oklahoma suyu Quechuan )Oklahomo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Oklawoma (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Oklaxoma (C ,U ,Uzbek )Oklaxoma Shitati (C ,U ,Uyghur )Sooner State (C ,U ,English )State of Oklahoma (C ,U ,English )Uoklahůma (C ,U ,Silesian )Оклахома (C ,U ,Western Mari )Оклахома Tatar )Оклахома Mongolian )Оклахома Kazakh )Оклахома Bulgarian )Оклахома Russian )Оклахома Ukrainian )Оклахома Russia Buriat )Оклахома Chechen )Оклахома Macedonian )Оклахома Serbian )Оклахома Chuvash )Οκλαχόμα (C ,U ,Greek )오클라호마 주 (C ,U ,Korean )ᎣᎦᎳᎰᎹ (C ,U ,Cherokee )ওকলাহোমা (C ,U ,Bengali )Оклахом (C ,U ,Kalmyk )ᐆᑳᓛᓲᒫ (C ,U ,Inuktitut )รัฐโอคลาโฮมา (C ,U ,Thai )ഒക്ലഹോമ (C ,U ,Malayalam )Штат Аклахома (C ,U ,Belarusian )اوکلاہوما (C ,U ,Panjabi, Western )اوکلاہوما Urdu )أوكلاهوما (C ,U ,Arabic )اوكلاهوما (C ,U ,Arabic, Egyptian )ஓக்லகோமா (C ,U ,Tamil )ኦክላሆማ (C ,U ,Amharic )אקלעהאמע (C ,U ,Yiddish )ਓਕਲਾਹੋਮਾ (C ,U ,Panjabi, Eastern )ဥက္ကလာဟိုးမားပြည်နယ် (C ,U ,Burmese )ఓక్లహోమా (C ,U ,Telugu )ܐܘܟܠܐܗܘܡܐ (C ,U ,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) )ओक्लाहोमा (C ,U ,Pali )ओक्लाहोमा Newari )ओक्लाहोमा Marathi )ओक्लाहोमा Nepali )ओक्लाहोमा Hindi )Оклахомо (C ,U )אוקלהומה (C ,U ,Hebrew )ئۆکلاھۆما (C ,U ,Central Kurdish )ಒಕ್ಲಹೋಮ (C ,U ,Kannada )ოკლაჰომა (C ,U ,Georgian )奧克拉何馬州 (C ,U ,Chinese, Yue )ئوکلاھاما (C ,U ,Northern Luri )اکلاهما (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )اوکلاهاما (C ,U ,Mazanderani )اوکلاهما ایالتی (C ,U ,Azerbaijani, South )ઓક્લાહોમા (C ,U ,Gujarati )奧克拉荷馬州 (C ,U ,Chinese )オクラホマ州 (C ,U ,Japanese )Օկլահոմա (C ,U ,Armenian )
Hierarchical Position:
Place Types:
state (preferred B ) ............ since November 16, 1907
first level subdivision (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Oklahoma City .................. (World, North and Central America, United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma county) [7013953]
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