Hays
Hays is a town of 21,000 people in the Western region of Kansas. The largest city in northwestern Kansas, and the economic and cultural center of the region. It is also a college town, home to Fort Hays State University.- Type: City with 21,100 residents
- Description: city in Kansas, United States
- Also known as: “Big Creek Station”, “Hays City”, “Hays, Kansas”, “Hays, KS”, “Ҳайс”, “הייז, קנזס”, “הייס, קנזס”, “हेझ”, and “海思”
- Postal code: 67601
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort Hays and Lewis Field Stadium.
Fort Hays
Fort Hays, originally named Fort Fletcher, was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas.Gross Memorial Coliseum
Sports venue
The Gross Memorial Coliseum is a 6,814 seat multi-purpose arena in Hays, Kansas.
Hays
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Ellis, Western Kansas, Kansas, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.871° or 38° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
-99.3312° or 99° 19′ 52″ west
Population
21,100
Elevation
2,021 feet (616 metres)
IATA airport code
HYS
UN/LOCODE
US HYS
Open location code
86C2VMC9+9G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Hays” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هايز”
- Basque: “Hays”
- Belarusian: “Хейс”
- Catalan: “Hays”
- Cebuano: “Hays”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەیس، کانزاس”
- Chechen: “Гейс”
- Chinese: “海斯”
- Dagbani: “Hays”
- Danish: “Hays”
- Dutch: “Hays”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هايز”
- French: “Hays”
- German: “Hays”
- Gilaki: “هیز (کانزاس)”
- Gilaki: “هیز”
- Greek: “Χέις”
- Haitian: “Hays, Kansas”
- Haitian: “Hays”
- Hebrew: “הייז”
- Hungarian: “Hays”
- Ido: “Hays, Kansas”
- Ido: “Hays”
- Irish: “Hays”
- Italian: “Hays”
- Japanese: “ヘイズ”
- Korean: “헤이스”
- Ladin: “Hays”
- Malagasy: “Hays, Kansas”
- Malagasy: “Hays”
- Marathi: “हेस”
- Mazanderani: “هیز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hays”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hays”
- Norwegian: “Hays”
- Persian: “هیز، کانزاس”
- Persian: “هیز”
- Polish: “Hays”
- Portuguese: “Hays”
- Russian: “Хейс (Канзас)”
- Russian: “Хейс”
- Serbian: “Хејз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hays, Kansas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hays”
- Silesian: “Hays (Kansas)”
- Silesian: “Hays”
- Slovenian: “Hays”
- South Azerbaijani: “هایس، کانزاس”
- Spanish: “Hays”
- Swedish: “Hays, Kansas”
- Swedish: “Hays”
- Tatar: “Гейс”
- Turkish: “Hays, Kansas”
- Turkish: “Hays”
- Ukrainian: “Гейс”
- Urdu: “ہیئز، کنساس”
- Urdu: “ہیئز”
- Uzbek: “Hays”
- Vietnamese: “Hays, Kansas”
- Vietnamese: “Hays”
- Volapük: “Hays”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hays, Kansas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hays”
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