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Montana is a state in the Western region of the United States.

The state's name is derived from the Spanish word (mountain).

Montana has several nicknames, although none official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place".

Montana has a border with three Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, the only state to do so.

It also borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and Idaho to the west and southwest.

Montana is ranked 4th in size, but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States.

The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges.

Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state.

In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains.

The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands.

A glacier (or) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features.

They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques and moraines.

Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.

Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S.

Grant on March 1, 1872.

Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world.

The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features.

It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant.

It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion.

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country.

The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns.

Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.

An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.