Kansas

Also known as Kansas, United States of America, KS, State of Kansas, Kans., Kan., Sunflower State, US-KS

Kansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Colorado to the west; Oklahoma to the south; and Missouri to the east. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri, which straddles the border of Kansas and Missouri.

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Kansas is a landlocked Midwestern state in the United States bordered by Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Missouri, with its capital in Topeka and largest city in Wichita. The state is named after the Kansas River and the Kansa people, and its largest urban area is the Kansas City metropolitan region, which it shares with Missouri.

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Key facts

U.S. state.area_rank: 15th
U.S. state.name: Kansas
U.S. state.image_flag: Flag of Kansas.svg
U.S. state.flag_link: Flag of Kansas
U.S. state.image_seal: Great Seal of the State of Kansas Colored.svg
U.S. state.image_map: Kansas in United States.svg
U.S. state.OfficialLang: English
U.S. state.nicknames: The Sunflower State (official);The Wheat State; America's Heartland
U.S. state.Former: Kansas Territory
U.S. state.population_demonym: Kansan
U.S. state.motto: (Latin)To the stars through difficulties
U.S. state.anthem: "Home on the Range"
U.S. state.seat: Topeka
U.S. state.LargestCity: Wichita
U.S. state.LargestCounty: Johnson
U.S. state.LargestMetro: Kansas portion of Kansas City, MO-KS area
U.S. state.Legislature: Legislature
U.S. state.Upperhouse: Senate

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Research

99,979 papers

Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Quality Score Indicates Sustained Health Status Improvement in Patients After TMVr.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2020Meinertz T, Münzel TDOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.03.034
Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Kansas, 2021-2022.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2023Groenweghe E, Swensson L, Winans KD et al.DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7235a4
Kansas maternity deserts: a cross-sectional study of rural obstetric providers.Rural and remote health · 2021Taporco JS, Wolfe E, Chavez G et al.DOI: 10.22605/RRH6137
A Review of West Nile Virus as a Cause of Human Disease in Kansas.ReviewVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2025Higgs S, Hettenbach SM, Ake AM et al.DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2024.0104
Kansas beef bulls with chronic anaplasmosis demonstrate satisfactory breeding soundness outcomes at breeding soundness examination.Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association · 2024Jablinski AC, Reppert EJ, Huser S et al.DOI: 10.2460/javma.23.05.0292
Candida auris detected in the oral cavity of a dog in Kansas.mBio · 2024White TC, Esquivel BD, Rouse Salcido EM et al.DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03080-23
Kansas State University is advancing animal welfare with practical analgesic solutions for food animals.American journal of veterinary research · 2023Coetzee JF, Kleinhenz MD, Viscardi AV et al.DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.23.07.0153
Research at the University of Kansas.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2010Chertoff MEDOI: 10.3766/jaaa.21.3.1

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: Kansasano
Population: 2937880
Area: 213100
Elevation: 600
Official website: www.kansas.gov
Households: 1141985
Motto: Ad astra per aspera

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Commons category: Kansas
inception: 1861-01-29
short name: Kan.
nickname: The Free State
water as percent of area: 0.63
native label: State of Kansas
maximum temperature record: 121
minimum temperature record: -40
marriageable age: 18
compulsory education (maximum age): 18
OpenStreetMap zoom level: 6
official map URL: www.kansasgis.org
per capita income: 32798
mean age: 36.9
hashtag: Kansas
minimum wage: 7.25
social media followers: 61129
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Contents

Etymology
History
Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War
Settlement and the Wild West
20th century
Geography
Geology
Topography
Rivers
Lakes and Reservoirs
National parks and historic sites
Flora and fauna
Climate
Settlement
Birth data
Life expectancy
Regions
Northeast Kansas
South Central Kansas
Southeast Kansas
Central and North-Central Kansas
Northwest Kansas
Southwest Kansas
Around the state
Demographics
Population
Race and ethnicity
Language
Religion
Largest immigrant groups
Economy
Energy
Taxes
Health care
Transportation
Highways
Interstate Highways
U.S. Routes
Aviation
Rail
Transit
Law and government
State and local politics
Political culture
19th-century state politics
20th-century state politics
21st-century state politics
National politics
State laws
Education
Culture
Music
Literature
Art
Museums
Film
Television
Television stations
Radio stations
Sports
Professional
History
College
NCAA Division I schools
NCAA Division II schools
Junior colleges
High school
Rivalry with Missouri
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

For thousands of years, what is now known as Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, conflict between abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri broke out over the question of whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state, in a period known as Bleeding Kansas. On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State". Passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862 brought a further influx of settlers, and the booming cattle trade of the 1870s attracted some of the Wild West's most iconic figures to western Kansas.