Kentucky
Kentucky is a Southern state of the United States; its state capital is Frankfort. Attractions include horse racing and beautiful lakes. It is home to famous food, drink and music traditions.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Frankfort and Louisville.
Lexington
Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the Bluegrass Region.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bluegrass Region and Kentucky Derby Region.
Bluegrass Region
The Bluegrass Region is perhaps Kentucky's most famous region, if not its most visited.
Kentucky Derby Region
Kentucky Derby Region is Kentucky's most famous and…
Caves and Lakes
Kentucky's Caves and Lakes region is centered around…
Western Waterlands
Kentucky's Western Waterlands region is at the western…
Daniel Boone Country
Daniel Boone Country is Kentucky's southeasternmost…
Kentucky Appalachians
Kentucky Appalachians is the region where Kentucky, a proud country state, gets country.
Western Coal Fields
Kentucky's Western Coal Fields is bluegrass country…
Southern Lakes
Kentucky's Southern Lakes region is in the middle…
Kentucky
- State with about 4,510,000 residents
- …is abbreviated as “KY”
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as“Blue Grass State”“Commonwealth of Kentucky”“Kentucky, United States”“Ky.”“US-KY”
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Latitude of center
37.5726° or 37° 34′ 21″ north
Longitude of center
-85.1551° or 85° 9′ 19″ west
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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: “肯塔基州”
- Choctaw: “Kentʋki”
- 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”
- Emilian: “Kentucky”
- 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”
- Kashmiri: “کینٹَکی”
- Kazakh: “Кентукки”
- Kirghiz: “Кентукки”
- Komering: “Kentucky”
- Korean: “켄터키”
- Korean: “켄터키주”
- Kurdish: “Kentakî”
- 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 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”
- Oromo: “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: “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”
- Somali: “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”
- 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: “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”
- “ma Kentaki”
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