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Kansas (state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 40 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 38.6667 decimal degrees
Long: 098 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -98.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Had agricultural culture by 1200; inhabited by Kansa, Wichita, Pawnee & others when Spanish & French visited 17th-18th cen.; part of Louisiana Purchase 1803; tribes from N & E were forced here 19th cen.; had internal strife over slavery, fought for Union.
Names:
Kansas (preferred C ,V ,English ) ............ name derived from the plural form of name for Kansa (or Kaw) Indian tribe Kansas Spanish )Kansas French )KS (C ,V ,CD )Cansas (C ,U ,Portuguese )Cansia (C ,U ,Latin )Estado de Kansas (C ,U ,Spanish )Kanekaka (C ,U ,Hawaiian )Kansaso (C ,U ,Esperanto )Kansas suyu (C ,U ,Quechuan )Kansas suyu Ayamará )Kansia (C ,U ,Latin )Kanzas (C ,U ,Uzbek )Kanzas Albanian )Kanzas Azerbaijani )Kánzạs (C ,U ,Igbo )Kanzasa (C ,U ,Latvian )Kanzasas (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Kanzasos (C ,U ,Samogitian )Kanzas Shitati (C ,U ,Uyghur )kanzys (C ,U )Kènsas (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Khâm-sat-sṳ̂ (C ,U ,Chinese, Hakka )Konzas (C ,U )Shádiʼááhjí Dzígaii (C ,U ,Navajo )State of Kansas (C ,U ,English )Sunflower State (C ,U ,English )کانزاس (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )کانزاس Central Kurdish )کانزاس Northern Luri )کانزاس Mazanderani )ক্যানসাস (C ,U ,Bishnupriya Manipuri )Канзас (C ,U ,Russian )Канзас Kazakh )Канзас Bulgarian )Канзас Tatar )Канзас Ukrainian )Канзас Ossetian/Ossetic )Канзас Yakut )Канзас Russia Buriat )Канзас Western Mari )Канзас Chechen )Канзас Chuvash )Канзас Mongolian )Канзас Macedonian )Канзас Serbian )Канзас Tajik )Канзас Bashkir )कॅन्सस (C ,U ,Marathi )कान्सास् (C ,U ,Pali )केन्सास (C ,U ,Hindi )कन्सास (C ,U ,Nepali )ক্যান্সাস (C ,U ,Bengali )カンザス州 (C ,U ,Japanese )Штат Канзас (C ,U ,Belarusian )ಕನ್ಸಾಸ್/ಕಾನ್ಸಾಸ್ (C ,U ,Kannada )კანზასი (C ,U ,Georgian )캔자스 주 (C ,U ,Korean )کنساس (C ,U ,Panjabi, Western )کنساس Urdu )ਕਾਂਸਸ (C ,U ,Panjabi, Eastern )รัฐแคนซัส (C ,U ,Thai )קענזעס (C ,U ,Yiddish )കാൻസസ് (C ,U ,Malayalam )కాన్సాస్ (C ,U ,Telugu )કેન્સાસ (C ,U ,Gujarati )كانساس (C ,U ,Arabic )كانساس Arabic, Egyptian )ካንሳስ (C ,U ,Amharic )堪薩斯州 (C ,U ,Chinese )קנזס (C ,U ,Hebrew )Каанзс (C ,U ,Kalmyk )ကန်းဆပ်ပြည်နယ် (C ,U ,Burmese )干沙州 (C ,U ,Chinese, Yue )கேன்சஸ் (C ,U ,Tamil )ܟܐܢܣܐܣ (C ,U ,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) )Կանզաս (C ,U ,Armenian )کانزاس ایالتی (C ,U ,Azerbaijani, South )Κάνσας (C ,U ,Greek )ཁན་སཱ་སི། (C ,U ,Tibetan )
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Place Types:
state (preferred B ) ............ since January 29, 1861
first level subdivision (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Topeka .................. (World, North and Central America, United States, Kansas, Shawnee county) [7013945]
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