Montana is one the biggest states of the United States of America. Montana borders on many state, so it has a lot of neighbors. In the North Montana adjoins with the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the East with South and North Dakota, in the south with Idaho and Wyoming and in the west also with Idaho. Montana has an interesting peculiarity – it is conditionally divided into two different economic parts. The west area called Rocky Mountains specializes in the delivery of metal ores and lumber. The East part of Montana (Great Plains) produces the gas raw materials, petroleum, coal and agriculture products. Montana joint the United States in the year 1889 and was the forty first state.
Montana has quite a big area and occupies the territory of 147 square miles. Montana is the fourth larges state in the USA. The lower point of Montana is the 1,800 feet along the Kootenai river. The highest point reaches the 12, 799 feet on the top of Granite Peak. The average elevation in Montana reaches 3,400 feet.
As for physical geography of Montana, the state has two major areas: the mountain areas and the plains. The plains are generally situated in the eastern side of the state, the western region of Montana is occupied by the mountains. The Montana`s landscape is admirable: from glacial ice to the beautiful green alpine flats full of exotic trees. Some areas of Montana are almost free of people because of the inaccessible places. There are a lot of huge hills and nice valleys here.
There are four main rivers in Montana: Kootenai, Flathead River, Clark Fork and the Missoury River with many tributaries (Milk, Marias and Yellowstone rivers). They all drain to the Pacific Ocean. Also there is a famous Flathead lake in Montana.
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