<P> The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming . Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber . The state's fastest - growing sector is tourism . The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy . Millions of tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, and Yellowstone National Park . </P> <P> The name Montana comes from the Spanish word Montaña and the Latin word Montana, meaning "mountain", or more broadly, "mountainous country". Montaña del Norte was the name given by early Spanish explorers to the entire mountainous region of the west . The name Montana was added to a bill by the United States House Committee on Territories, which was chaired at the time by Rep. James Ashley of Ohio, for the territory that would become Idaho Territory . The name was changed by Representatives Henry Wilson (Massachusetts) and Benjamin F. Harding (Oregon), who complained Montana had "no meaning". When Ashley presented a bill to establish a temporary government in 1864 for a new territory to be carved out of Idaho, he again chose Montana Territory . This time Rep. Samuel Cox, also of Ohio, objected to the name . Cox complained that the name was a misnomer given most of the territory was not mountainous and that a Native American name would be more appropriate than a Spanish one . Other names such as Shoshone were suggested, but it was decided that the Committee on Territories could name it whatever they wanted, so the original name of Montana was adopted . </P> <P> Montana is one of the nine Mountain States, located in the north of the region known as the Western United States . It borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east . Wyoming is to the south, Idaho is to the west and southwest, and three Canadian provinces, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, are to the north . </P> <P> With an area of 147,040 square miles (380,800 km), Montana is slightly larger than Japan . It is the fourth largest state in the United States after Alaska, Texas, and California; it is the largest landlocked U.S. state . </P>

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