Colorado Front Range

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The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the populated areas of the state of Colorado in the United States which are just east of the foothills of the Front Range, from which the region takes its name. The region contains the largest cities and the majority of the population of Colorado, aligned in a north-south configuration on the western edge of the Great Plains, where they meet the Rockies. Geologically, the region lies mostly within the Colorado Piedmont, in the valley of the South Platte and Arkansas rivers on the east side of the Rockies.

The Colorado Front Range communities include (in a roughly north-to-south order):

	The State of Colorado History \| Economy \| Geography \| Law & Government \| National Parks \| Rivers \| Highways \| Coloradoans
State capital	Denver
Nicknames	Government>The Centennial State \| The Rocky Mountain State \| Swiss America \| The Last Frontier \| The Last Old West State
Motto	Latin>Nil sine Numine (Nothing without the Deity)
Anthems	Where the Columbines Grow Government>(Official) \| Rocky Mountain High (Popular)
Regions	Colorado Piedmont \| Eastern Plains \| Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area \| Front Range \| Mineral Belt \| Grand Valley \| The High Rockies \| Roaring Fork Valley \| San Luis Valley \| South-Central Colorado \| Western Slope \| Southwestern Colorado
Largest cities	Arvada \| Aurora \| Boulder \| Broomfield \| Castle Rock \| Centennial \| Colorado Springs \| Commerce City \| Denver \| Fort Collins \| Grand Junction \| Greeley \| Lakewood \| Littleton \| Longmont \| Loveland \| Parker \| Pueblo \| Thornton \| Westminster
Counties	Adams \| Alamosa \| Arapahoe \| Archuleta \| Baca \| Bent \| Boulder \| Broomfield \| Chaffee \| Cheyenne \| Clear Creek \| Conejos \| Costilla \| Crowley \| Custer \| Delta \| Denver \| Dolores \| Douglas \| Eagle \| El Paso \| Elbert \| Fremont \| Garfield \| Gilpin \| Grand \| Gunnison \| Hinsdale \| Huerfano \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Kiowa \| Kit Carson \| La Plata \| Lake \| Larimer \| Las Animas \| Lincoln \| Logan \| Mesa \| Mineral \| Moffat \| Montezuma \| Montrose \| Morgan \| Otero \| Ouray \| Park \| Phillips \| Pitkin \| Prowers \| Pueblo \| Rio Blanco \| Rio Grande \| Routt \| Saguache \| San Juan \| San Miguel \| Sedgwick \| Summit \| Teller \| Washington \| Weld \| Yuma

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