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Kansas

Kansas is a state in the region of the . Thanks to The Wizard of Oz, many non-Kansans think of it as a place from which to escape; however, there are a lot of great places to visit, particularly if you are interested in the history of the American West.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Topeka and Wichita.

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is the capital of Kansas. Visitors come to see the Kansas Museum of History, Zoo, and Renisch Rose Gardens. The metropolitan area is rich in history and highly favored by nature. In 2019, it was home to 125,000 people.

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is the largest city in Kansas — since is divided between the states of Kansas and . It is not the biggest or flashiest city in the US, but it is a medium-sized city with a small-town feel.

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is a city in the state of Kansas, in the , and a suburb of , . , Kansas, is often referred to as KCK, and , Missouri, as KCMO.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Eastern Kansas and Central Kansas.

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is a region of Kansas.

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is a region of Kansas.

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is flat, dry, and very rural - in other words, this is what most people think of when they think of Kansas.

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The , historically known as Bluestem Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a region of hills and prairies that lie mostly in eastern Kansas. It is named for the abundant residual flint eroded from the bedrock that lies near or at the surface.

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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

Latitude of center
38.2731° or 38° 16′ 23″ north
Longitude of center
-98.5822° or 98° 34′ 56″ west
Population
2,900,000
Elevation
1,788 feet (545 metres)
Abbreviation
“KS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316956038
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4273857
Wiki­data ID
Q1558
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Kansas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kansas”
  • Albanian: “Kansas”
  • Albanian: “Kanzas”
  • Amharic: “ካንሳስ”
  • Arabic: “كانساس”
  • Arabic: “كنزاس”
  • Aragonese: “Kansas”
  • Armenian: “Կանզաս”
  • Arpitan: “Kansas”
  • Asturian: “Kansas”
  • Aymara: “Kansas suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanzas”
  • Balinese: “Kansas”
  • Bashkir: “Канзас”
  • Basque: “Kansas”
  • Bavarian: “Kansas”
  • Belarusian: “Канзас”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্সাস”
  • Betawi: “Kansas”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “KS”
  • Eastern Mari: “Канзас”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانزاس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانساس”
  • Esperanto: “Kansaso”
  • Esperanto: “KS”
  • Esperanto: “subŝtato Kansaso”
  • Estonian: “Kansas”
  • Ewe: “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”
  • Hausa: “Kansas”
  • Hawaiian: “Kanekaka”
  • Hawaiian: “Mokuʻāina o 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”
  • Kannada: “ಕನ್ಸಾಸ್/ಕಾನ್ಸಾಸ್‌‌”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kanzas”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Канзас”
  • Kazakh: “Канзас”
  • Kildin Sami: “Канзас”
  • Kirghiz: “Канзас”
  • Korean: “캔자스”
  • Korean: “캔자스주”
  • Kurdish: “Kansas”
  • Ladin: “Kansas”
  • Ladino: “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: “Kanahara”
  • Maori: “Kansas”
  • Marathi: “कॅन्सस”
  • Mazanderani: “کانزاس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kansas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kansas”
  • Mingrelian: “კანზასი”
  • Mongolian: “Канзас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كانساس”
  • Nauru: “Kansas”
  • Navajo: “Honeestiin Dah Daaskʼid Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “कन्सास”
  • Newari: “कान्सास”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kansas”
  • Northern Luri: “کانزاس”
  • Northern Sami: “Kansas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kan.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kans.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “KS”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kansas”
  • Norwegian: “Kansas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kansas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܐܢܣܐܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cǣnsas”
  • 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: “Kansas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanzas”
  • Sicilian: “Kansas”
  • Silesian: “Kansas”
  • Sindhi: “ڪنساس”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්සාස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kansas”
  • Slovak: “Kansas”
  • Slovenian: “Kansas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانزاس ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانزاس”
  • Southern Sami: “Kansas”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Girasol”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Trigo”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Libre”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Kansas”
  • Spanish: “Kansas (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Kansas”
  • Spanish: “KS”
  • 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”
  • Tumbuka: “Kansas”
  • Turkish: “Kan.”
  • Turkish: “Kans.”
  • Turkish: “Kansas eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Kansas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Kansas”
  • Turkish: “KS”
  • 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”
  • Vlaams: “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”
  • Zhuang: “Kansas”
  • “Kansas”
  • “Kànsas”
  • “Kanzasos”
  • “ma Kense”
  • “कंसास”

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