Kansas
Kansas is a state in the Great Plains region of the United States of America. It is generally considered the center of the country in geographical terms, and one of its nicknames is "the Heart of America." The state's official nickname is "The Sunflower…Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Topeka
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Topeka is the capital of Kansas. Visitors come to see the Kansas Museum of History, Topeka Zoo, and Renisch Rose Gardens.
Wichita
Wichita is the largest city in Kansas - since Kansas City is divided between the states of Kansas and Missouri.Kansas City
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Kansas City is a city in the state of Kansas, in the United States of America, and a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.
Destinations
Western Kansas
Western Kansas is flat, dry, and very rural - in other words, this is what most people think of when they think of Kansas.Flint Hills
The Flint Hills, historically known as Bluestem Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a region in eastern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma named for the abundant residual flint eroded from the bedrock that lies near or at the surface.Southeastern Kansas
Southeastern Kansas is a region of Kansas. Geographically it is dominated by a broad rolling landscape located between the Flint Hills to the west and includes the Ozarks to the southeast.Kansas
- Type: State with 2,900,000 residents
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Neighbors: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude of centre
38.2731° or 38° 16' 23" northLongitude of centre
-98.5822° or 98° 34' 56" westPopulation
2,900,000Elevation
545 metres (1,788 feet)Abbreviation
KSOpenStreetMap ID
node 316956038OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
4273857Wikidata ID
Q1558Kansas Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kansas
- Afar: Kanzas
- Afrikaans: Kansas
- Albanian: Kansas
- Albanian: Kanzas
- Amharic: ካንሳስ
- Arabic: Kansas
- Arabic: كانساس
- Aragonese: Kansas
- Armenian: Կանզաս
- Arpitan: Kansas
- Asturian: Kansas
- Aymara: Kansas suyu
- Azerbaijani: Kanzas
- Balinese: Kansas
- Bashkir: Канзас
- Basque: Kansas
- Bavarian: Kansas
- Belarusian: Канзас
- Belarusian: Штат Канзас
- Bengali: ক্যান্সাস
- Bhojpuri: कंसास
- Bishnupriya: ক্যানসাস
- Bislama: Kansas
- Bosnian: Kansas
- Breton: Kansas
- Bulgarian: Канзас
- Burmese: ကန်းဆပ်ပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: Kansas
- Cebuano: Kansas
- Central Bikol: Kansas
- Central Kurdish: کانزاس
- Central Kurdish: کانساس
- Chavacano: Kansas
- Chechen: Канзас
- Cheyenne: Kansas
- Chinese: Kansas
- Chinese: 堪萨斯州 / 堪薩斯州
- Chinese: 堪萨斯州
- Chinese: 堪薩斯州
- Chinese: 干沙州
- Chuvash: Канзас
- Cornish: Kansas
- Corsican: Kansas
- Crimean Tatar: Kanzas
- Croatian: Kansas
- Czech: Kansas
- Czech: State of Kansas
- Dagbani: Kansas
- Danish: Kansas
- Dimli (individual language): Kansas
- Dutch: Kansas
- Eastern Mari: Канзас
- Egyptian Arabic: كانساس
- English: KS
- English: Kan.
- English: Kans.
- English: Kansas, United States of America
- English: State of Kansas
- English: Sunflower State
- English: US-KS
- Esperanto: KS
- Esperanto: Kansaso
- Esperanto: subŝtato Kansaso
- Estonian: Kansas
- Faroese: Kansas
- Fiji Hindi: Kansas
- Finnish: Kansas
- French: Kansas
- Gagauz: Kansas
- Galician: Kansas
- Georgian: კანზასი
- German: Kansas
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌶𐌰𐍃
- Greek: Κάνσας
- Guarani: Kansas
- Gujarati: કેન્સાસ
- Haitian: Kannzas
- Haitian: Kènsas
- Hakka Chinese: Kansas
- Hakka Chinese: Khâm-sat-sṳ̂
- Hausa: Kanekaka
- Hausa: Kansas
- Hawaiian: Kanekaka
- Hebrew: קנזס
- Hindi: केन्सास
- Hungarian: Kansas
- Icelandic: Kansas
- Ido: Kansas
- Igbo: Kánzạs
- Iloko: Kansas
- Inari Sami: Kansas
- Indonesian: Kansas
- Interlingua: Kansas
- Interlingue: Kansas
- Inupiaq: Kansas
- Irish: Kansas
- Italian: Kansas
- Japanese: カンザス州
- Javanese: Kansas
- Kabiyè: Kanzasii
- Kabyle: Kansas
- Kalmyk: Каанзс
- Kalmyk: Канзас
- Kannada: ಕನ್ಸಾಸ್/ಕಾನ್ಸಾಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Kanzas
- Kazakh: Канзас
- Kildin Sami: Канзас
- Korean: 캔자스
- Korean: 캔자스 주
- Korean: 캔자스주
- Kurdish: Kansas
- Ladin: Kansas
- Ladino: Kansas
- Lao: Kansas
- Latin: Cansia
- Latin: Kansia
- Latvian: Kanzasa
- Ligurian: Kansas
- Limburgan: Kansas
- Lingua Franca Nova: Kansas
- Literary Chinese: 堪薩斯州
- Lithuanian: Kanzasas
- Lojban: kanzys
- Lombard: Kansas
- Low German: Kansas
- Lule Sami: Kansas
- Luxembourgish: Kansas
- Macedonian: Канзас
- Maithili: कन्सास
- Malagasy: Kansas
- Malay: Kansas
- Malayalam: കാൻസസ്
- Manipuri: ꯀꯥꯟꯁꯥꯁ
- Manx: Kansas
- Maori: Kansas
- Marathi: कॅन्सस
- Mazanderani: کانزاس
- Min Dong Chinese: Kansas
- Min Nan Chinese: Kansas
- Mingrelian: კანზასი
- Mongolian: Канзас
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯟꯁꯥꯁ
- Moroccan Arabic: كانساس
- Nauru: Kansas
- Navajo: Honeestiin Dah Daaskʼid Hahoodzo
- Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí Dzígaii
- Nepali: कन्सास
- Nepali: कान्सास
- Newari: कान्सास
- Northern Frisian: Kansas
- Northern Luri: کانزاس
- Northern Sami: Kansas
- Norwegian: Kansas
- Norwegian Bokmål: KS
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kan.
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kans.
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kansas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kansas
- Occitan (post 1500): Kansas
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܟܐܢܣܐܣ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Kansas
- Ossetian: Канзас
- Pali: कान्सास्
- Pampanga: Kansas
- Panjabi: ਕਾਂਸਸ
- Papiamento: Kansas
- Persian: کانزاس
- Picard: Kansas
- Piemontese: Kansas
- Pite Sami: Kansas
- Polish: Kansas
- Portuguese: Cansas
- Portuguese: Kansas
- Pushto: کانزاس
- Quechua: Kansas suyu
- Romanian: Kansas
- Romansh: Kansas
- Russia Buriat: Канзас
- Russian: Канзас
- Samogitian: Kanzasos
- Sanskrit: केन्सास
- Sardinian: Kansas
- Saterfriesisch: Kansas
- Scots: Kansas
- Scottish Gaelic: Kansas
- Serbian: Канзас
- Serbo-Croatian: Kanzas
- Sicilian: Kansas
- Silesian: Kansas
- Sinhala: කැන්සාස්
- Skolt Sami: Kansas
- Slovak: Kansas
- Slovenian: Kansas
- South Azerbaijani: کانزاس
- South Azerbaijani: کانزاس ایالتی
- Southern Sami: Kansas
- Spanish: El Estado Libre
- Spanish: El Estado del Girasol
- Spanish: El Estado del Trigo
- Spanish: Estado de Kansas
- Spanish: KS
- Spanish: Kansas
- Spanish: Kansas (Estados Unidos)
- Swahili: Kansas
- Swedish: Kansas
- Tagalog: Kansas
- Tajik: Канзас
- Talysh: Kanzas
- Tamil: கன்சாஸ்
- Tamil: கேன்சஸ்
- Tatar: Канзас
- Telugu: కాన్సాస్
- Thai: รัฐแคนซัส
- Tibetan: ཁན་སཱ་སི།
- Tornedalen Finnish: Kansas
- Turkish: KS
- Turkish: Kan.
- Turkish: Kans.
- Turkish: Kansas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
- Turkish: Kansas
- Turkish: Kansas eyaleti
- Turkish: State of Kansas
- Turkish: US-KS
- Uighur: Kanzas Shitati
- Ukrainian: Канзас
- Ume Sami: Kansas
- Upper Sorbian: Kansas
- Urdu: کنساس
- Uzbek: Kanzas
- Venetian: Kansas
- Vietnamese: Kansas
- Vlax Romani: Kansas
- Volapük: Kansas
- Waray (Philippines): Kansas
- Welsh: Kansas
- Western Frisian: Kansas
- Western Mari: Канзас
- Western Panjabi: کنساس
- Wu Chinese: 堪萨斯州
- Xhosa: IKhanzasi
- Yakut: Канзас
- Yiddish: קענזעס
- Yoruba: Kansas
- Yue Chinese: 干沙州
- Zeeuws: Kansas
- Kanahara
- Konzas
- Kànsas
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