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Sooner State, Boomer's Paradise (early illegally land claimers), Oklahoma was named by Native American missionary Allen Wright by combining two Choctaw words: 'ukla ("person") and humá ("red"); thus, Oklahoma means "red person."

Oklahoma is located in the southern Great Plains, with eastern Oklahoma in the Central Lowlands and is bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri (east), Arkansas (northeast), Texas (south and west), and New Mexico & Colorado (northwestern tip).

At 69,903 square miles, Oklahoma is the 18th largest state. The highest elevation is Black Mesa in Cimarron County at 4,973 feet while the lowest elevation is Little River in McCurtain County at 289 feet.

The highest temperature on record was 120° while the lowest was -27°.