Editing Navajo County, Arizona (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|9960|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|9950|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|9.3|sqmi}} (0.09%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_04.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 23, 2015|date=August 23, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files}}</ref>

Navajo County offers not only the [[Monument Valley]], but [[Keams Canyon]], part of the [[Petrified Forest National Park]], and one of the largest contiguous [[Ponderosa Pine|ponderosa pine]] forests in North America.

Nathan Korhman of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' described the county, in 2022, as "one of Arizona’s most rural regions", stating that a political canvasser would have to drive to get to a sequential house on a list to target, while in more urban areas such a canvasser would walk from place to place.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kohrman|first=Nathan|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/12/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democrat-party-independent-volunteers/672455/|title='She Made an Idiot Out of Me'|magazine=[[The Atlantic]]|date=December 14, 2022|accessdate=June 26, 2023}}</ref>

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache County]] – east
* [[Graham County, Arizona|Graham County]] – south
* [[Gila County, Arizona|Gila County]] – southwest
* [[Coconino County, Arizona|Coconino County]] – west
* [[San Juan County, Utah]] – north

===Indian reservations===
Navajo County has {{convert|6,632.73|sqmi|km2}} of federally designated [[Indian reservation]] within its borders, the third most of any county in the United States (neighboring [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache County]] and [[Coconino County, Arizona|Coconino County]] are first and second). In descending order of territory within the county, the reservations are the [[Navajo Nation]], [[Hopi Indian Reservation]], and [[Fort Apache Indian Reservation]], all of which are partly located within Navajo County.

===National protected areas===
[[File:Giants, Petroglyphs at Rock Art Ranch.jpg|thumb|upright|Petroglyphs at Rock Art Canyon Ranch near Winslow]]
* [[Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest]] (part)
* [[Navajo National Monument]]
* [[Petrified Forest National Park]] (part)