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Area: 269,601 square kilometers or 104,094 square miles Colorado is a western state in the central United States. The state is famous for its mountainous terrain. To the east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains is the eastern Colorado Plain, part of the Great Plains in Colorado that ranges in elevation from 1,000 to 2,000 meters (3,500 to 7,000 feet). Kansas and Nebraska lie beside Colorado to the east. The plain is sparsely populated and most people live along the South Platte and Arkansas rivers and 70th Street. The state has very little rainfall, with an average annual rainfall of 380 millimeters (15 inches). The region has only a few irrigated lands, and most of the land is devoted to dryland agriculture or ranching. Winter wheat is the signature crop and most of the small towns in the region boast both water towers and threshing machines. From west to east, the state's land is a desert-like basin that becomes a plateau, then alpine mountains, then grasslands of the Great Plains. Mount Elbert is the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains in the continental United States. The famous Pike Peak is a little west of Colorado Springs. Its lone peak can be seen from near the Kansas border on sunny days.