Nevada lies between California and Utah.
Colorado lies east of Utah. Utah lies to the north-east of California. Therefore, Colorado is farther from California. See the link for a map.
California
The following states have major desert areas: California Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas Colorado Utah
Idaho.
The state in which the college of California State University lies is in the state of California, this is a public university that has twenty three campuses.
Arizona is bordered by Utah to the north.
Arizona lies in the southwestern United States, on the border with Mexico. The state is bordered by Utah to the north, by New Mexico to the east, to the south by the states of Sonora and Baja California (Mexico), and to the west by California and Nevada.
Gulf of California
Oregon is the state further west in fact it lies right next to the Pacific Ocean.
Since it is in northwestern Arizona, it can be said to lie between Utah and Sonora, Mexico as well as between Nevada and New Mexico. It has no border with any state and lies exclusively within Arizona.
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