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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Kansas:

Kansas – U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States.^[1] It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.^[2] The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning.^[3]^[4]

General reference[edit]

Names
Common name: Kansas
Pronunciation: /ˈkænzəs/
Official name: State of Kansas
- Abbreviations and name codes
  - Postal symbol: KS
  - ISO 3166-2 code: US-KS
  - Internet second-level domain: .ks.us
- Nicknames
  - America's Bread Basket
  - Sunflower State
  - Wheat State (previously used on license plates)
Adjectival: Kansas
Demonym: Kansan

Geography of Kansas[edit]

Geography of Kansas

Kansas is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America
Location
- Northern hemisphere
- Western hemisphere
  - Americas
    - North America
      - Anglo America
      - Northern America
        United States of America
        Contiguous United States
        Central United States
        West North Central States
        
        Midwestern United States
        
        Great plains
Population of Kansas: 2,853,118 (2010 U.S. Census^[5])
Area of Kansas:
Atlas of Kansas

Places in Kansas[edit]

Environment of Kansas[edit]

Climate of Kansas
Geology of Kansas
Superfund sites in Kansas
Wildlife of Kansas
- Fauna of Kansas
  - Ants of Kansas
  - Birds of Kansas
  - Reptiles
    - Snakes of Kansas

Natural geographic features of Kansas[edit]

Regions of Kansas[edit]

Administrative divisions of Kansas[edit]

The 105 counties of the state of Kansas
- Municipalities in Kansas
  - Cities in Kansas
    - State capital of Kansas:
    - City nicknames in Kansas

Demography of Kansas[edit]

Demographics of Kansas

Government and politics of Kansas[edit]

Military in Kansas[edit]

History of Kansas[edit]

History of Kansas

History of Kansas, by period[edit]

Prehistory of Kansas
French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764
- Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
Spanish (though predominantly Francophone) district of Alta Luisiana, 1764–1803
- Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800
French district of Haute-Louisiane, 1803
- Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Unorganized U.S. territory created by the Louisiana Purchase, 1803–1804
- Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804–1806
District of Louisiana, 1804–1805
Territory of Louisiana, 1805–1812
- Pike Expedition, 1806–1807
Territory of Missouri, 1812–1821
- War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815
  - Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814
- Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819
Unorganized Territory, 1821–1854
- Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880
- Mexican–American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
  - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848
- Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851
Territory of Kansas, 1854–1861
- Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854
- History of slavery in Kansas
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1859
- Pike's Peak Gold Rush, 1858–1861
- Territory of Jefferson (extralegal), 1859–1861
- Pony Express, 1860–1861
State of Kansas becomes 34th State admitted to the United States of America on January 29, 1861
- American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865
  - Kansas in the American Civil War
    - Price's Raid, September 27 – December 2, 1864
- Comanche Campaign, 1868–1874
- Spanish–American War, April 25 – August 12, 1898
- Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th President of the United States on January 20, 1953
- United States Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954

History of Kansas, by region[edit]

By city
- History of Kansas City

History of Kansas, by subject[edit]

History of education in Kansas
History of slavery in Kansas
History of sports in Kansas
- History of the Kansas City Royals (a professional sports team located in Missouri but often affiliated with Kansas)
- Timeline of college football in Kansas

Culture of Kansas[edit]

Culture of Kansas

The Arts in Kansas[edit]

Music of Kansas

Sports in Kansas[edit]

Sports in Kansas

Economy and infrastructure of Kansas[edit]

Economy of Kansas

Communications in Kansas
Energy in Kansas
Health care in Kansas
- Hospitals in Kansas
Transportation in Kansas
- Airports in Kansas

Education in Kansas[edit]

Education in Kansas

Schools in Kansas
- School districts in Kansas
  - High schools in Kansas
- Colleges and universities in Kansas
  - University of Kansas
  - Kansas State University

References[edit]

^ "Census.gov" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
^ John Koontz, p.c.
^ Rankin, Robert. 2005. "Quapaw." In Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, eds. Heather K. Hardy and Janine Scancarelli. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pg. 492
^ Connelley, William E. 1918. Indians Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, ch. 10, vol. 1
^ "U.S. Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts Kansas". Archived from the original on 2012-05-03.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Atlas of Kansas

Access documents, photographs, and other primary sources on Kansas Memory, the Kansas State Historical Society's digital portal

[1] "Census.gov" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2010-07-31.

[2] John Koontz, p.c.

[3] Rankin, Robert. 2005. "Quapaw." In Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, eds. Heather K. Hardy and Janine Scancarelli. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pg. 492

[4] Connelley, William E. 1918. Indians Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, ch. 10, vol. 1

[5] "U.S. Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts Kansas". Archived from the original on 2012-05-03.

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