Alaska is the largest state in the US by far. It is 663,000 square miles, compared to the second largest Texas at 269,000 square miles. The largest state in the union by area â¦ is Alaska, but it ranks 47th  by population among US states. The five largest states in the US are Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, and New Mexico.
The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience.. The United States Congress established the monument as a National Park on November 19, 1919. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the park in 1956.ion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches. Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans; the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi (300 CE) stem from one of these groups.
Even with the creation of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and nearly 37 other national parks and monuments, another 44 years passed before an agency was created in the United States to administer these units in a comprehensive way â the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).ocky Mountain National Park became Canada 's first national park in 1885. New Zealand established Tongariro National Park in 1887. In Europe, the first national parks were a set of nine parks in Sweden in 1909, followed by the Swiss National Park in 1914.