Phoenix is the capital of Arizona

Phoenix is ​​the capital of Arizona.The population of the city of Phoenix is ​​1 million 513 thousand people which allows it to close the top five cities in the United States with the largest population. The agglomeration of the city of Phoenix in addition to the city itself includes the suburbs and settlements of the central part of Arizona. From 1990 to 2000, the population of the Phoenix metropolitan area grew by 45%, which is 3 times the average for the United States. This allowed the state of Arizona to become the second fastest growing state after Nevada. Significant growth, albeit at a slower pace, continues in the first decade of the 21st century.

Phoenix Botanical Gardens
Desert Botanical Garden is located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. It has a fairly large size - about 59 hectares. There are more than 20,000 plant species collected that have adapted to the harsh life in the Arizona desert region.
Among them, a special place is occupied by cacti. In their botanical garden there are about 1350 species.

Climate
The climate of Phoenix is ​​dry and hot, falls into the category of subtropical desert. Thermally, it is similar to the climate of cities in the Persian Gulf region - Baghdad or Riyadh (however, the annual distribution of clouds and precipitation is completely different).

According to the 2010 census, there were 1,445,632 inhabitants in the city, making Phoenix the sixth most populous city in the United States and the first among the capitals of the American states . After a decade of leadership among US cities in terms of population growth, the rate of Over the decade since 2000, the population of Phoenix increased by 124,000 (9.4%), while the population of the agglomeration during this period increased by 28.9%.

The Hurd Museum, dedicated to ethnography and the heritage of American Indian cultures, has existed since 1929. The founders are Mary Bartlett Heard and Dwight B. Heard, who used their personal collection. The modern exposition has more than forty thousand valuable items. Moreover, among the exhibits are more than 34 thousand volumes of the archive and library.