Quick Facts
Capital City: Topeka
Abbreviation: KS
Population (2019): 2,913,314; Rank: 35 of 50 | Population Quick Facts
Region: Midwest
Admission to Statehood: January 29, 1861 (34th State)
State Motto: “To the Stars Through Difficulties”
State Nickname: Sunflower State
Origin of State Name: From the Sioux Indian for “south wind people”
Area Codes: 316, 620, 785, 913
Zip Codes: Kansas Zip Codes
State Symbols
Bird: Western Meadowlark | List of State Birds
Flag: Kansas Flag – On a navy blue field is a sunflower, the state flower. Also, the state seal and the words “Kansas”. In the picture of the state seal are thirty-four stars representing the order of statehood. Above the stars is the motto “To the Stars Through Difficulties”. On the seal a sunrise overshadows a farmer plowing a field near his log cabin, a steamboat sailing the Kansas River, a wagon train heading west and Native Americans hunting bison. Flag adopted 1927. Get this Flag
Flower: Sunflower
Soil: Harney
Song: “Home on the Range” | Words by: Brewster Higley | Music by: Daniel Kelley
Other State Songs | Sheet Music
Tree: Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) | Other State Trees
Quarter: Kansas State Quarter shows an American bison (state mammal), sunflowers (state flower)
Geography
Area: Area: 82,282 sq.mi (213,110 sq.km.), 15th
Land: 81,823 sq.mi. (211,921 sq.km.), 13th
Water: 459 sq.mi. (1,189 sq.km.), 43rd
Largest Cities: Wichita | Overland Park | Kansas City | Olathe | Lawrence | Shawnee | Manhattan | Lenexa | Salina
Border States: Colorado | Missouri | Nebraska | Oklahoma | List of US Regions
Highest Point: Mt. Sunflower ; 4,039 feet, (1,231 m), 28th tallest
Lowest Point: Kansas; 680 feet, 41st lowest
Geographic Center: Barton, 15 miles northeast of Great Bend
National Parks: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Fort Scott National Historic Site
LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Location: Absolute Center: 38°29.9’N / 98°41.9’W
Relative Center: Barton, 15 miles northeast of Great Bend
State Government
Economy
Agriculture: Cattle, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, hogs, corn.
Industry: Transportation equipment, food processing, printing and publishing, chemical products, machinery, apparel, petroleum, mining.
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