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- The Four Corners is the only place where four U.S. states meet.
- Native peoples, Spain, France, the United States, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the State of Deseret have claimed various portions of the present State of Colorado.
- In antiquity, the area of the Front Range Urban Corridor was a popular migration route for Paleoamericans.
- Today, the Front Range Urban Corridor is the home of more than five million people.
- Denver is one of the few cities in the world with both a police department and a sheriff's department.
- Denver is the only world city to accept and later reject an Olympic Games for environmental reasons.
- Denver is the home of the Great American Beer Festival, the National Western Stock Show, the People's Fair, and the Festival of Mountain and Plain.