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Colorado
Colorado
(, or ) (
Spanish
for "ruddy") is a
U.S. state
encompassing most of the
Southern Rocky Mountains
as well as the northeastern portion of the
Colorado Plateau
and the western edge of the
Great Plains
. Colorado is part of the
Western United States
, the
Southwestern United States
, and the
Mountain States
. Colorado is the
8th most extensive
and the
22nd most populous
of the
50 United States
. The
United States Census Bureau
estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,456,574 on July 1, 2015, an increase of 8.50% since the
2010 United States Census
.
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