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Arkansas is a state on the western side of the . It calls itself "the Natural State". The northern part of the state is mountainous and forested, with the northwestern corner being home to the scenic Ozark Mountains and the economically booming Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers-Bentonville area.
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is the capital and the largest city of the state of Arkansas. is a cultural, economic, government, and transportation center within Arkansas and the American South.

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is a city of 87,000 people in the and the of Arkansas. It is home for the main campus of the University of Arkansas, and has many characteristics of a college town, including many bars, restaurants and specialty stores.

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is in northwest Arkansas and borders . It is the county seat of Sebastian County. The city has a population of 80,286 which makes it the third largest city in Arkansas behind and Fayetteville.

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The in Arkansas are part of the mountains, as well as being considered a region in north-central Arkansas and southern Missouri.

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Central is a region in Arkansas. The central region includes the Little Rock, North Little Rock Combined Statistical area which had 898,683 people in the 2013 census estimates and the Hot Springs Malvern Combined area which had 130,673 in 2013.

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is in northwest Arkansas along the Arkansas river.

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The Arkansas is a region of the state of Arkansas generally encompassing the area south of the , south of and west of the .

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The Arkansas is the eastern section of Arkansas along the and includes and .

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The are in the west-central part of Arkansas and south-eastern , and include the Ouachita Mountains and Ouachita National Forest.

Arkansas

Latitude of center
35.2049° or 35° 12′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
-92.4479° or 92° 26′ 53″ west
Population
3,090,000
Elevation
607 feet (185 metres)
Abbreviation
“AR”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316942960
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4099753
Wiki­data ID
Q1612
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Arkansas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arkansas”
  • Albanian: “Arkansas”
  • Amharic: “አርካንሳው”
  • Arabic: “أركنسا”
  • Arabic: “أركنساس”
  • Arabic: “أركنسة”
  • Aragonese: “Arkansas”
  • Armenian: “Արկանզաս”
  • Arpitan: “Arkansas”
  • Asturian: “Arkansas”
  • Aymara: “Arkansas suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arkanzas”
  • Balinese: “Arkansas”
  • Bashkir: “Арканзас”
  • Basque: “Arkansas”
  • Bavarian: “Arkansas”
  • Belarusian: “Арканзас”
  • Bengali: “আর্কানসাস”
  • Betawi: “Arkansas”
  • Bhojpuri: “आर्कन्सा”
  • Bishnupriya: “আরকান্‌সাস”
  • Bislama: “Arkansas”
  • Bosnian: “Arkansas”
  • Breton: “Arkansas”
  • Bulgarian: “Арканзас”
  • Burmese: “အာကင်ဆောပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Arkansas”
  • Cebuano: “Arkansas”
  • Central Bikol: “Arkansas”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئارکانساس”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئارکنساس”
  • Chavacano: “Arkansas”
  • Chechen: “Арканзас”
  • Cherokee: “ᏚᏯᏓᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “Arkansas”
  • Chinese: “阿肯色州”
  • Chuvash: “Арканзас”
  • Cornish: “Arkansas”
  • Corsican: “Arkansas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Arkanzas”
  • Croatian: “Arkansas”
  • Czech: “Arkansas”
  • Czech: “State of Arkansas”
  • Dagbani: “Arkansas”
  • Danish: “Arkansas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Arkansas”
  • Dutch: “AR”
  • Dutch: “Arkansas”
  • Eastern Mari: “Арканзас”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اركانسو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اركنساس”
  • Esperanto: “AR”
  • Esperanto: “Arkansaso”
  • Estonian: “Arkansas”
  • Faroese: “Arkansas”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Arkansas”
  • Finnish: “Arkansas”
  • French: “Arkansas”
  • Gagauz: “Arkansas”
  • Galician: “Arcansas”
  • Galician: “Arkansas”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿肯色州”
  • Georgian: “არკანზასი”
  • German: “Arkansas”
  • Gilaki: “آرکانزاس”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍅”
  • Greek: “Αρκάνσας”
  • Greek: “Άρκανσο”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία του Αρκάνσας”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία του Άρκανσο”
  • Guarani: “Arkansas”
  • Gujarati: “અરકાનસાસ”
  • Haitian: “Akennsas”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Arkansas”
  • Hausa: “Arkansas”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Akanaka”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAkanaka”
  • Hebrew: “ארקנסו”
  • Hindi: “अरकांसास”
  • Hindi: “आर्कन्सा”
  • Hungarian: “Arkansas”
  • Icelandic: “Arkansas”
  • Ido: “Arkansas”
  • Igbo: “Arkinsọ”
  • Iloko: “Arkansas”
  • Inari Sami: “Arkansas”
  • Indonesian: “Arkansas”
  • Interlingua: “Arkansas”
  • Interlingue: “Arkansas”
  • Inupiaq: “Aakansaa”
  • Inupiaq: “Arkansas”
  • Irish: “Arkansas”
  • Italian: “Arkansas”
  • Japanese: “アーカンソー州”
  • Javanese: “Arkansas”
  • Kabiyè: “Arakanzaa”
  • Kalmyk: “Әркәнзә”
  • Kannada: “ಅರ್ಕಾನ್ಸಾಸ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Арказнас”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Арканзас”
  • Kazakh: “Арканзас”
  • Kirghiz: “Арканзас (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Арканзас”
  • Komering: “Arkansas”
  • Korean: “아칸소”
  • Korean: “아칸소주”
  • Kurdish: “Arkansas”
  • Ladin: “Arkansas”
  • Ladino: “Arkansas”
  • Latin: “Arcansia”
  • Latvian: “Ārkanzasa”
  • Ligurian: “Arkansas”
  • Limburgan: “Arkansas”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Arkansas”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿肯色州”
  • Lithuanian: “Arkanzasas”
  • Lombard: “Arkansas”
  • Low German: “Arkansas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arkansas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arkansas”
  • Macedonian: “Арканзас”
  • Maithili: “आर्कान्स”
  • Malagasy: “Arkansas”
  • Malay: “Arkansas”
  • Malayalam: “അർക്കൻസാസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ആർക്കൻസാ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯥꯔꯀꯥꯟꯁꯥꯁ”
  • Manx: “Arkansas”
  • Maori: “Ākanara”
  • Maori: “Arkansas”
  • Marathi: “आर्कान्सा”
  • Mazanderani: “آرکانزاس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Arkansas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arkansas”
  • Minangkabau: “Arkansas”
  • Mingrelian: “არკანზასი”
  • Mongolian: “Арканзас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أركانساس”
  • Nauru: “Arkansas”
  • Navajo: “Dził Biiʼ Dzígaii Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “आर्कन्सा”
  • Nepali: “आर्कान्स”
  • Newari: “आर्कान्सः”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arkansas”
  • Northern Luri: “آرکانزاس”
  • Northern Sami: “Arkansas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “AR”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ark.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arkansas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arkansas”
  • Norwegian: “Arkansas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arkansas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܟܢܣܐܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Arcǣnsa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Arkansas”
  • Ossetian: “Арканзас”
  • Pali: “आर्कान्स:”
  • Pampanga: “Arkansas”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰਕੰਸਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Arkansas”
  • Persian: “آرکانزاس”
  • Picard: “Arkansas”
  • Piemontese: “Arkansas”
  • Polish: “Arkansas”
  • Portuguese: “Arkansas”
  • Pushto: “ارکنزاس”
  • Quechua: “Arkansas suyu”
  • Romanian: “Arkansas”
  • Romansh: “Arkansas”
  • Russia Buriat: “Арканзас”
  • Russian: “Арканзас”
  • Samogitian: “Arkanzasos”
  • Sanskrit: “अर्कान्स”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱨᱠᱟᱱᱥᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Arkansas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Arkansas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Arkansas‎”
  • Scots: “Arkansas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arkansas”
  • Serbian: “AR”
  • Serbian: “Ark.”
  • Serbian: “Арканзас”
  • Serbian: “држава Арканзас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arkansas”
  • Sicilian: “Arkansas”
  • Silesian: “Arkansas”
  • Sindhi: “ارڪنساس”
  • Sinhala: “අර්කන්සස්”
  • Sinhala: “ආකන්සෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Arkansas”
  • Slovak: “Arkansas”
  • Slovenian: “Arkansas”
  • Somali: “Arkansas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرکانزاس ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرکانزاس”
  • Spanish: “AR”
  • Spanish: “Arkansas (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Arkansas”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Natural”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Arkansas”
  • Swahili: “Arkansas”
  • Swedish: “Arkansas”
  • Tagalog: “Arkansas”
  • Tajik: “Арканзас”
  • Talysh: “Arkanzas”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்கன்சா”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்கன்சாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Арканзас”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్కాన్సా”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్కెన్సా రాష్ట్రం”
  • Thai: “รัฐอาร์คันซอ”
  • Tibetan: “ཨར་ཁན་སཱ་སི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Arkansas”
  • Turkish: “AR”
  • Turkish: “Ark.”
  • Turkish: “Arkansas eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Arkansas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Arkansas”
  • Turkish: “State of Arkansas”
  • Turkish: “US-AR”
  • Uighur: “Arkanzas Shtati”
  • Ukrainian: “Арканзас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Arkansas”
  • Urdu: “آرکنساس”
  • Uzbek: “Arkanzas”
  • Venetian: “Arkansas”
  • Vietnamese: “AR”
  • Vietnamese: “Arkansas”
  • Vlaams: “Arkansas”
  • Vlax Romani: “Arkansas”
  • Volapük: “Arkansas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arkansas”
  • Welsh: “Arkansas”
  • Western Frisian: “Arkansas”
  • Western Mari: “Арканзас”
  • Western Panjabi: “آرکانساس”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿肯色州”
  • Yakut: “Арканзас”
  • Yiddish: “ארקענסא”
  • Yoruba: “Arkansas”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿肯色州”
  • Zeeuws: “Arkansas”
  • Zhuang: “Arkansas”
  • “Arkansas”
  • “Arkànsas”
  • “Arkanzasos”
  • “ma Akanso”
  • “आर्कन्सा”

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