Kansas Travel Guide: Big Basin Prairie Preserve, Clark County, Kansas Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Basin_in_Fog_2002.jpg Author: Leaflet
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern United States. It is bordered by Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south, and Colorado to the west. The geographic center of the Contiguous United States is in Smith County in Kansas. The state covers an area of 82,277 sq miles (213,096 sq km) and has a population of 2.8 million people. Its largest city is Wichita while the largest metropolitan area in Kansas is the Kansas City Metro area. The capital of the state is at Topeka.
The first European to arrive in Kansas was Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, who explored the area in 1541. It was one of the states that was brought into the United States through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Being a largely rural agricultural state, Kansas is one of the slowest growing in the country in terms of population. This is also the result of rural flight with migration of the population from the countryside to the cities.
Mushroom Rock, Kansas Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mushroomsp.jpg Author: Nationalparks
Kanopolis State Park, Kansas Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanopolissp.jpg Author: Nationalparks
Travel to Kansas
Driving would be the most practical way to reach Kansas. Interstate 70 highway cuts across the state from east to west, while Interstate 35 enters it from the south.
Travel within Kansas
You would need a car to properly explore Kansas.
Assembling the B-25 Bomber in Kansas City, Kansas Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assembling_B-25_bombers_at_North_American_Aviation,_Kansas_City,_Kansas.jpg Author: Alfred T. Palmer
Cities in Kansas
Wichita (366,000) Biggest city in Kansas, home to an aircraft industry.
Overland Park (173,000) Second largest city in Kansas being a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City (147,000) Third largest city in Kansas, but within the biggest metropolitan area which stretches across the state line to Missouri.
Topeka (123,000) Capital and fourth largest city in Kansas.
Places of Interest in Kansas
Dodge City Town best associated with the Wild West.
Flint Hill Area with the largest remaining tract of virgin tallgrass prairie in the United States.
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