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Kentucky is a state of the ; its state capital is . Attractions include horse racing and beautiful lakes. It is home to famous food, drink and music traditions.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Frankfort and Louisville.

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is the capital of Kentucky. Downtown is characterized by charismatic, old-fashioned, antebellum style buildings holding shops, cafes, restaurants and museums.

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, the largest city in Kentucky, is known for the Kentucky Derby horserace and as the "gateway to the south" from southern Indiana. It's a lively mid-sized city with an excellent dining scene, ample opportunities for bourbon tasting, and interesting public art.

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is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the . Known as the Horse Capital of the World, has traditionally been dominated by the horse industry and is also heavily influenced by the University of Kentucky, the state's flagship university and the largest employer in the city.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Bluegrass Region and Kentucky Derby Region.

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The is perhaps Kentucky's most famous region, if not its most visited. This bucolic region is named for the coveted grass that suburban homeowners slave to get to grow on their lawns throughout the country.

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is Kentucky's most famous and most visited region, home to the state's biggest city, , and of course, the world famous Kentucky Derby.

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Kentucky's region is centered around , Kentucky's third largest city, and home to the world's largest cave system—Mammoth Cave.

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Kentucky's lies along the state border on the Ohio River with .

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Kentucky's 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.

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is Kentucky's southeasternmost region, along the Appalachian border with and . Its territory is dominated by the .

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is the region where Kentucky, a proud country state, gets country. The wild mountainous areas are more what you would expect from , and Kentucky's famous national Poet Laureates Robert Penn Warren and Jesse Stuart called these mountains home, as well as country music stars Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, Chris Stapleton, and Keith Whitley.

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Kentucky's is bluegrass country of a whole different nature—a banjo picking nature, that is. It's also a fine part of the state for BBQ, owing to its western location.

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Kentucky's region is in the middle of the state's southern border with , and is home to Lake Cumberland.

Kentucky

Latitude of center
37.5726° or 37° 34′ 21″ north
Longitude of center
-85.1551° or 85° 9′ 19″ west
Population
4,590,000
Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)
Abbreviation
“KY”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316959037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6254925
Wiki­data ID
Q1603
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Kentucky” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kentucky”
  • Albanian: “Kentaki”
  • Albanian: “Kentucky”
  • Amharic: “ኬንታኪ”
  • Arabic: “كنتاكي”
  • Aragonese: “Kentucky”
  • Armenian: “Կենտուկի”
  • Arpitan: “Kentucky”
  • Asturian: “Kentucky”
  • Aymara: “Kentucky suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kentukki”
  • Balinese: “Kentucky”
  • Basque: “Kentucky”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Kentucky”
  • Bavarian: “Kentucky”
  • Belarusian: “Кентакі”
  • Belarusian: “Кентукі”
  • Bengali: “কেন্টাকি”
  • Betawi: “Kentaki”
  • Bhojpuri: “केंचुकी”
  • Bishnupriya: “কেন্টাকি”
  • Bislama: “Kentucky”
  • Bosnian: “Kentucky”
  • Breton: “Kentucky”
  • Bulgarian: “Кентъки”
  • Burmese: “ကင်တပ်ကီပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Kentucky”
  • Catalan: “Mancomunitat de Kentucky”
  • Cebuano: “Kentucky”
  • Central Bikol: “Kentucky”
  • Central Kurdish: “کنتاکی”
  • Central Kurdish: “کینتاکی”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێنتەکی”
  • Chavacano: “Kentucky”
  • Chechen: “Кентукки”
  • Cherokee: “ᎬᏅᏓᎩ”
  • Chinese: “Kentucky”
  • Chinese: “肯塔基州”
  • Chuvash: “Кентукки”
  • Cornish: “Kentucky”
  • Corsican: “Kentucky”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kentukki”
  • Croatian: “Kentucky”
  • Czech: “Commonwealth of Kentucky”
  • Czech: “Kentucky”
  • Dagbani: “Kentucky”
  • Danish: “Kentucky”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kentucky”
  • Dutch: “Kentucky”
  • Dutch: “KY”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кентукки”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنتاكى”
  • Esperanto: “Kentukio”
  • Estonian: “Kentucky”
  • Ewe: “Kentucky”
  • Faroese: “Kentucky”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kentucky”
  • Fijian: “Kentucky”
  • Finnish: “Kentucky”
  • French: “État de l’herbe bleue”
  • French: “Kentucky”
  • French: “KY”
  • French: “US-KY”
  • Gagauz: “Kentucky”
  • Galician: “Kentucky”
  • Georgian: “კენტუკი”
  • German: “Commonwealth of Kentucky”
  • German: “Kentucky”
  • German: “KY”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Κεντάκι”
  • Greek: “Κεντάκυ”
  • Greek: “Κοινοπολιτεία του Κεντάκι”
  • Guarani: “Kentucky”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટકી”
  • Haitian: “Kèntòki”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kentucky”
  • Hausa: “Kentucky”
  • Hawaiian: “Kenekuke”
  • Hebrew: “קנטאקי”
  • Hebrew: “קנטקי”
  • Hindi: “कॅण्टकी”
  • Hindi: “केन्टकी”
  • Hungarian: “Kentucky”
  • Icelandic: “Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Kentucky”
  • Igbo: “Kentórkị”
  • Iloko: “Kentucky”
  • Inari Sami: “Kentucky”
  • Indonesian: “Kentucky”
  • Interlingua: “Kentucky”
  • Interlingue: “Kentucky”
  • Inupiaq: “Kentucky”
  • Irish: “Kentucky”
  • Italian: “Kentucky”
  • Japanese: “ケンタッキー州”
  • Javanese: “Kentucky”
  • Kabiyè: “Kɛntuukii”
  • Kabyle: “Kentucky”
  • Kalmyk: “Кинтааки”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಂಟುಕಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кентакки”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кентукки”
  • Kazakh: “Кентукки”
  • Kirghiz: “Кентукки”
  • Komering: “Kentucky”
  • Korean: “켄터키”
  • Korean: “켄터키주”
  • Kurdish: “Kentucky”
  • Ladin: “Kentucky”
  • Ladino: “Kentucky”
  • Latin: “Kentukia”
  • Latvian: “Kentuki”
  • Ligurian: “Kentucky”
  • Limburgan: “Kentucky”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kentucky”
  • Literary Chinese: “肯塔基州”
  • Lithuanian: “Kentukis”
  • Lombard: “Kentucky”
  • Low German: “Kentucky”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kentucky”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kentucky”
  • Macedonian: “Кентаки”
  • Maithili: “केन्टकी”
  • Malagasy: “Kentucky”
  • Malay: “Kentucky”
  • Malayalam: “കെന്റക്കി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯟꯇꯛꯀꯤ”
  • Manx: “Kentucky”
  • Maori: “Kenetāki”
  • Maori: “Kentucky”
  • Marathi: “केंटकी”
  • Mazanderani: “کنتاکی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kentucky”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kentucky”
  • Mingrelian: “კენტუკი”
  • Moksha: “Кэнтаки”
  • Mongolian: “Кентакки”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينتاكي”
  • Nauru: “Kentucky”
  • Navajo: “Haltsooí Hóteel Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “केन्टकी”
  • Newari: “केन्चकी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kentucky”
  • Northern Luri: “کنتاکی”
  • Northern Sami: “Kentucky”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kentucky”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ky.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “KY”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kentucky”
  • Norwegian: “Kentucky”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kentucky”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mancomunautat de Kentucky”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Centuccīg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kentucky”
  • Ossetian: “Кентукки”
  • Pali: “केन्चकी”
  • Pampanga: “Kentucky”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿੰਟਕੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Kentucky”
  • Persian: “کنتاکی”
  • Picard: “Kentucky”
  • Piemontese: “Kentucky”
  • Polish: “Kentucky”
  • Portuguese: “Kentucky”
  • Pushto: “کنتاکي”
  • Quechua: “Kentucky suyu”
  • Romanian: “Kentucky”
  • Romansh: “Kentucky”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кентукки”
  • Russian: “Кентуки”
  • Russian: “Кентукки”
  • Rusyn: “Кентукки”
  • Samogitian: “Kentokis”
  • Sanskrit: “केन् टकी”
  • Sanskrit: “केन्‍टकी”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱱᱛᱩᱠᱠᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱱᱴᱩᱠᱠᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Kentucky”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kentucky”
  • Scots: “Kentucky”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kentucky”
  • Serbian: “Кентаки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kentucky”
  • Sicilian: “Kentucky”
  • Silesian: “Kentucky”
  • Sindhi: “ڪينٽڪي”
  • Sinhala: “කෙන්චුකි”
  • Sinhala: “කෙන්ටකි”
  • Slovak: “Kentucky”
  • Slovenian: “Kentucky”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنتاکی ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bluegrass”
  • Spanish: “Kentucky, Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Kentucky”
  • Spanish: “KY”
  • Spanish: “Mancomunidad de Kentucky”
  • Swahili: “Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Kentucky”
  • Tagalog: “Kentaki”
  • Tagalog: “Kentucky”
  • Tajik: “Кентукки”
  • Tajik: “Кентуккӣ”
  • Talysh: “Kentukki”
  • Tamil: “கென்டக்கி”
  • Tatar: “Кентукки”
  • Telugu: “కెంటకీ”
  • Thai: “รัฐเคนทักกี”
  • Turkish: “Ken.”
  • Turkish: “Kent.”
  • Turkish: “Kentucky eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Kentucky, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Ky.”
  • Turkish: “KY”
  • Turkish: “State of Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “US-KY”
  • Uighur: “Kéntukki Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Кентуккі”
  • Ukrainian: “Кентуцкі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kentucky”
  • Urdu: “کینٹکی”
  • Uzbek: “Kentukki”
  • Venetian: “Kentucky”
  • Vietnamese: “Kentucky”
  • Vietnamese: “KY”
  • Vietnamese: “Thịnh vượng chung Kentucky”
  • Vlaams: “Kentucky”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kentucky”
  • Volapük: “Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kentucky”
  • Welsh: “Kentucky”
  • Western Frisian: “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”
  • Zhuang: “Kentucky”
  • “Kentokis”
  • “Kentucky”
  • “ma Kentaki”
  • “US-KY”
  • “केंचुकी”

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