Kentucky
Kentucky is a southern state of the United States; its state capital is Frankfort. Attractions include horse racing and beautiful lakes. Kentucky is also culturally part of the American South. It is home to famous food, drink and music traditions.Popular Destinations
Louisville
Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, with about one and a half million people living in the metro area. Photo: Quadell, CC BY 3.0.Frankfort
Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky. A small city of about 25,000 residents, it is in the Bluegrass Region about 50 miles from the state's largest city of Louisville and 25 miles from Lexington. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Bluegrass Region
The Bluegrass Region is perhaps Kentucky's most famous region, if not its most visited. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Lexington
Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the Bluegrass Region. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.- Type: State
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: South, United States, North America
- Neighbors: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia
Destinations
Kentucky Derby Region
Kentucky Derby Region is Kentucky's most famous and most visited region, home to the state's biggest city, Louisville, and of course, the world famous Kentucky Derby. Photo: PandamicPhoto.com, CC BY-SA 2.0.Caves and Lakes
Kentucky's Caves and Lakes region is centered around Bowling Green, Ketucky's third largest city, and home to the world's largest cave system—Mammoth Cave. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Western Waterlands
Kentucky's Western Waterlands region is at the western edge of the state, and is home to popular outdoor recreation areas around Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley and Land Between the Lakes. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Northern Ohio River Region
Kentucky's Northern Ohio River Region lies along the state border on the Ohio River with Ohio. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Daniel Boone Country
Daniel Boone Country is Kentucky's southeasternmost region, along the Appalachian border with Virginia and Tennessee. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Kentucky Appalachians
Kentucky Appalachians is the region where Kentucky, a proud country state, gets country. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Western Coal Fields
Kentucky's Western Coal Fields is bluegrass country of a whole different nature—a banjo picking nature, that is. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Southern Lakes
Kentucky's Southern Lakes region is in the middle of the state's southern border with Tennessee, and is home to Lake Cumberland. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Kentucky
Latitude of center
37.5726° or 37° 34' 21" northLongitude of center
-85.1551° or 85° 9' 19" westPopulation
4,410,000Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)Abbreviation
KYOpenStreetMap ID
node 316959037GeoNames ID
6254925Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kentucky
- Afrikaans: Kentucky
- Albanian: Kentaki
- Albanian: Kentucky
- Amharic: ኬንታኪ
- Arabic: Kentucky
- Arabic: كنتاكي
- Aragonese: Kentucky
- Armenian: Կենտուկի
- Asturian; Bable: Kentucky
- Aymara: Kentucky suyu
- Azerbaijani: Kentukki
- Basque: Kentucky
- Bavarian: Kentucky
- Belarusian: Кентакі
- Belarusian: Кентукі
- Belarusian: Садружнасць Кентукі
- Bengali: কেন্টাকি
- Bhojpuri: केंचुकी
- Bihari : केंचुकी
- Bishnupriya: কেন্টাকি
- Bislama: Kentucky
- Bosnian: Kentucky
- Breton: Kentucky
- Bulgarian: Кентъки
- Burmese: ကင်တပ်ကီပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: Kentucky
- Cebuano: Kentucky
- Central Bicolano: Kentucky
- Central Kurdish: کنتاکی
- Central Kurdish: کینتاکی
- Central Kurdish: کێنتاکی
- Central Kurdish: کێنتەکی
- Chavacano: Kentucky
- Chechen: Кентукки
- Chinese: Kentucky
- Chinese: 肯塔基州
- Chuvash: Кентукки
- Cornish: Kentucky
- Corsican: Kentucky
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Kentukki
- Croatian: Kentucky
- Czech: Commonwealth of Kentucky
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- Danish: Kentucky
- Dimli: Kentucky
- Dutch: Kentucky
- Eastern Mari: Кентукки
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: كنتاكى
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: Kentucky
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Kentucky
- English: Blue Grass State
- English: Bluegrass State
- English: Commonwealth of Kentucky
- English: KY
- English: Kentucky, United States
- English: Ky.
- Esperanto: Kentukio
- Estonian: Kentucky
- Faroese: Kentucky
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- Fijian Hindustani: Kentucky
- Finnish: Kentucky
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- French: Kentucky
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- Gaelic (Scots): Kentucky
- Gagauz: Kentucky
- Gallegan: Kentucky
- Georgian: კენტუკი
- German: Commonwealth of Kentucky
- German: KY
- German: Kentucky
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹
- Greek: Κεντάκι
- Greek: Κεντάκυ
- Greek: Κοινοπολιτεία του Κεντάκι
- Guarani: Kentucky
- Gujarati: કેન્ટકી
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Kèntòki
- Hakka Chinese: Kentucky
- Hakka Chinese: Khén-thap-kî
- Hausa: Kenekuke
- Hausa: Kentucky
- Hawaiian: Kenekuke
- Hebrew: קנטקי
- Hindi: कॅण्टकी
- Hindi: केन्टकी
- Hungarian: Kentucky
- Icelandic: Kentucky
- Ido: Kentucky
- Igbo: Kentórkị
- Iloko: Kentucky
- Inari Sami: Kentucky
- Indonesian: Kentucky
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Kentucky
- Interlingue: Kentucky
- Inupiaq: Kentucky
- Irish: Kentucky
- Italian: Kentucky
- Japanese: ケンタッキー州
- Javanese: Kentucky
- Kabiyé: Kɛntuukii
- Kabyle: Kentucky
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Кентукки
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Кинтааки
- Kannada: ಕೆಂಟುಕಿ
- Kazakh: Кентукки
- Korean: 켄터키
- Korean: 켄터키 주
- Korean: 켄터키주
- Kurdish: Kentucky
- Ladino: Kentucky
- Lao: Kentucky
- Latin: Kentukia
- Latvian: Kentuki
- Letzeburgesch: Kentucky
- Ligurian: Kentucky
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Kentucky
- Lithuanian: Kentukis
- Lombard: Kentucky
- Low German; Low Saxon: Kentucky
- Macedo Romanian: Kentucky
- Macedonian: Кентаки
- Maithili: केन्टकी
- Malagasy: Kentucky
- Malay (generic): Kentucky
- Malayalam: കെന്റക്കി
- Manipuri: ꯀꯦꯟꯇꯛꯀꯤ
- Manx: Kentucky
- Maori: Kentucky
- Marathi: केंटकी
- Mazanderani: کنتاکی
- Min Dong Chinese: Kentucky
- Min Nan Chinese: Kentucky
- Mingrelian: კენტუკი
- Mongolian: Кентакки
- Mongolian: ꯀꯦꯟꯇꯛꯀꯤ
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: كينتاكي
- Nauru: Kentucky
- Navajo: Haltsooí Hóteel Hahoodzo
- Navajo: Kentákii Hahoodzo
- Nepali: केन्चकी
- Nepali: केन्टकी
- Newari: केन्चकी
- Northern Frisian: Kentucky
- Northern Luri: کئنتاکی
- Northern Luri: کنتاکی
- Northern Sami: Kentucky
- Norwegian: Kentucky
- Norwegian Bokmål: KY
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kentucky
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ky.
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kentucky
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Kentucky
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Кентукки
- Pali: केन्चकी
- Pampanga: Kentucky
- Panjabi: ਕਿੰਟਕੀ
- Papiamento: Kentucky
- Persian: کنتاکی
- Picard: Kentucky
- Piemontese: Kentucky
- Polish: Kentucky
- Portuguese: Categoria:Kentucky
- Portuguese: Kentucky
- Pushto: کنتاکي
- Quechua: Kentucky suyu
- Raeto-Romance: Kentucky
- Romanian: Kentucky
- Russia Buriat: Кентукки
- Russian: Кентуки
- Russian: Кентукки
- Rusyn: Кентукки
- Sanskrit: केन् टकी
- Sanskrit: केन्टकी
- Santali: ᱠᱮᱱᱛᱩᱠᱠᱤ
- Santali: ᱠᱮᱱᱴᱩᱠᱠᱤ
- Sardinian: Kentucky
- Saterfriesisch: Kentucky
- Scots: Kentucky
- Serbian: Кентаки
- Serbo-Croatian: Kentucky
- Sicilian: Kentucky
- Sinhalese: කෙන්චුකි
- Slovak: Kentucky
- Slovenian: Kentucky
- Sorbian, Upper: Kentucky
- South Azerbaijani: کنتاکی
- South Azerbaijani: کنتاکی ایالتی
- Spanish: Estado de Bluegrass
- Spanish: KY
- Spanish: Kentucky
- Spanish: Kentucky, Estados Unidos
- Spanish: Mancomunidad de Kentucky
- Swahili (generic): Kentucky
- Swedish: Kentucky
- Tagalog: Kentaki
- Tagalog: Kentucky
- Tajik: Кентукки
- Tajik: Кентуккӣ
- Tamil: கென்டக்கி
- Tatar: Кентукки
- Telugu: కెంటకీ
- Thai: รัฐเคนทักกี
- Turkish: Kentucky
- Uighur: Kéntukki Shitati
- Ukrainian: Кентуккі
- Urdu: کینٹکی
- Uzbek: Kentukki
- Venetian: Kentucky
- Vietnamese: KY
- Vietnamese: Kentucky
- Vietnamese: Thịnh vượng chung Kentucky
- Volapük: Kentucky
- Waray (Philippines): Kentucky
- Welsh: Kentucky
- Western Mari: Кентукки
- Western Panjabi: کینٹکی
- Wu Chinese: 肯塔基州
- Xhosa: IKhentakhi
- Yakut: Кентаки
- Yiddish: קענטאקי
- Yoruba: Kentucky
- Yue Chinese: 肯塔基州
- Zeeuws: Kentucky
- Kenetāki
- Kentokis
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