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.

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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. 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" north

Longitude of center

-85.1551° or 85° 9' 19" west

Population

4,410,000

Elevation

515 feet (157 metres)

Abbreviation

OpenStreetMap ID

node 316959037

GeoNames ID

6254925

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Also 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
Czech: Kentucky
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
Fijian: Kentucky
Fijian Hindustani: Kentucky
Finnish: Kentucky
Franco-Provençal: Kentucky
French: Kentucky
Frisian: Kentucky
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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