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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.

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Louisville

Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, with about one and a half million people living in the metro area.

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Lexington

Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the Bluegrass Region.

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Bowling Green

Bowling Green is the third-largest city in Kentucky, with nearly 60,000 residents.

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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.

Louisville Bardstown Shepherdsville

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Bluegrass Region

The Bluegrass Region is perhaps Kentucky's most famous region, if not its most visited.

Lexington Frankfort Danville

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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.

Bowling Green Franklin Cave City

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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.

Paducah Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area Benton

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Northern Ohio River Region

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

Newport Covington Florence

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Daniel Boone Country

Daniel Boone Country is Kentucky's southeasternmost region, along the Appalachian border with Virginia and Tennessee.

London Corbin Natural Bridge State Park

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Western Coal Fields

Kentucky's Western Coal Fields is bluegrass country of a whole different nature—a banjo picking nature, that is.

Hartford Henderson Owensboro

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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.

Somerset Monticello Lake Cumberland State Resort Park

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Kentucky Appalachians

Kentucky Appalachians is the region where Kentucky, a proud country state, gets country.

Morehead Ashland Carter Caves State Resort Park

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Daniel Boone National Forest

The Daniel Boone National Forest is a national forest in Kentucky.

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Kentucky

Location: South, United States, North America
Population: 4,430,000
Abbreviation: KY
Latitude of center: 38° 12' 1.5" (38.2004°) north
Longitude of center: 84° 52' 39.4" (84.8776°) west
Elevation: 515 feet (157 meters)
Neighbors: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia
Wikidata: Kentucky
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Amharic: ኬንታኪ Arabic: كنتاكي Armenian: Կենտուկի Aymara: Kentucky suyu Azerbaijani: Kentukki Belarusian: Садружнасць Кентукі Bengali: কেন্টাকি Bishnupriya: কেন্টাকি Bulgarian: Кентъки Burmese: ကင်တပ်ကီပြည်နယ် Central Kurdish: کێنتاکی Chechen: Кентукки Chinese: 肯塔基州 Chuvash: Кентукки Eastern Mari: Кентукки Egyptian Arabic: كنتاكى English: Blue Grass State English: Commonwealth of Kentucky Esperanto: Kentukio Georgian: კენტუკი Greek: Κεντάκι Haitian: Kèntòki Hakka Chinese: Khén-thap-kî

Hawaiian: Kenekuke Hebrew: קנטקי Hindi: कॅण्टकी Igbo: Kentórkị Japanese: ケンタッキー州 Kalmyk: Кинтааки Kazakh: Кентукки Korean: 켄터키 주 Latin: Kentukia Latvian: Kentuki Lithuanian: Kentukis Macedonian: Кентаки Malayalam: കെന്റക്കി Marathi: केंटकी Mazanderani: کنتاکی Mongolian: Кентакки Navajo: Kentákii Hahoodzo Nepali: केन्टकी Newari: केन्चकी Northern Luri: کئنتاکی Ossetian: Кентукки Pali: केन्चकी Panjabi: ਕਿੰਟਕੀ

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