Kansas, also known as the Sunflower state, is considered to be one of the midwestern heartland states. It is home to 105 counties or 628 cities.
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Kansas, also known as the Sunflower state, is considered to be one of the midwestern heartland states. It is home to 105 counties or 628 cities.
Its estimated population of 2,764,075 inhabitants, have an average per capital income of $29,483. Kansas is currently experiencing a flux in rural and urban city population due to a increased surge of urbanization, with many residents leaving the small cities they were raised in to move to bigger cities, such as Topeka (the state capital), Kansas City (home to the ever popular Kansas City Royals Baseball Team), Salina, Wichita, Manhattan, and Lawrence.
Kansas is ranked 8th in U.S. oil production and is one of the top U.S agricultural producers, as 2/3 of Kansas is flat plains, it is ideal in producing such crops as soybeans, corn, sunflowers, and wheat. Kansas also boasts such industrial outputs of transportation equipment, machinery, and food processing products.
Kansas is also famous for its tempormental climate. Known for its varying extremes of bitterly cold winters and blazing hot summers, Kansas can average anywhere from 16-46 inches of rain per year and between 5-35 inches of snow. It is also located in what is known as Tornado Alley, where in the Spring it is prone to many tornadoes with a level of F3 or higher.
Itīs state name is derived from the Kansas River and a native american tribe, the Kansa, who were one of the orignal inhabitants of the state. Historically speaking, Kansas is also famous for such things as the Civil War, where Kansas was a main part of the bloody battle between the free and slave states, with such historical figures as William Quantrill playing a forefront, leading to Kansas being referred to as Bleeding Kansas. Other well known events and persons associated to Kansas are Brown vs. Board of Education, which debated the right to teach evolution vs. religion in schools, the Santa Fe Trail, references to the Wild West with such figures as Bill Hitchock, and Wyatt Earp better known for the settling of Dodge City. Kansas is also famous for its fictional association with The Wizard of Oz, a museum of which can be found in Wamego, KS.
Touristic spots of appeal can be found in the Konza Prarie, part of the Flint Hills, a museum and replica log cabin where Laura Ingalls Wilder once lived, the Chalk Pyramids, and the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchison, KS, which currently boasts the space shuttle Apollo 13.
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