Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Colorado to the west; Oklahoma to the south; and Missouri to the east. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri, which straddles the border of Kansas and Missouri.For thousands of years, what is now known as Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, conflict between abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri broke out over the question of whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state, in a period known as Bleeding Kansas. On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State". Passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862 brought a further influx of settlers, and the booming cattle trade of the 1870s attracted some of the Wild West's most iconic figures to western Kansas.
As of 2015, Kansas was among the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. In addition to its traditional strength in agriculture, Kansas possesses an extensive aerospace industry. Kansas, which has an area of is the 15th-largest state by area, the 36th most-populous of the 50 states, with a population of 2,940,865 according to the 2020 census, and the 10th least densely populated. Residents of Kansas are called ''Kansans or Jayhawkers''. Mount Sunflower is Kansas' highest point at .
Kansas is generally considered to be the geographic center of the contiguous United States, with Lebanon being approximately the center. Provided by Wikipedia
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2Published 1990“…Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City…”
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3Published 2011“… Lawrence Kansas USA…”
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4Published 1992“…CSC92: ACM 20th Annual Computer Science Conference Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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5Published 1993“…SIGFORTH92: ACM SIGFORTH Symposium Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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6Published 2011“…Jennifer Huberman, University of Missouri-Kansas City --…”
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7Published 1992“…SAC92: 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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8Published 1992“…SIGCSE92: 1992 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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9Published 1992“…SAC92: 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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10Published 1987“…SIGUCCS87: ACM/SIGUCCS Conference XV on User Services Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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11Published 2015“…SIGCSE '15: The 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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12Published 1999“…CIKM99: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Kansas City Missouri USA…”
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