| Kansas
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Kansas' official flag was adopted
in 1927. On a navy blue field
is a sunflower, the state flower
the word "KANSAS,"
and the state seal of Kansas.
The seal pictures rich Kansas
farmland, a farmer plowing,
covered wagons, Native Americans
hunting bison, a rising sun,
a steamboat on water which represents
commerce which is beneath the
sun and the mountains. It has
34 stars because Kansas was
the 34th state in the USA, and
the state motto, "AD ASTRA
PER ASPERA," meaning "To
the stars through difficulty,"
in Latin.
Kansas was admitted to Statehood
on Jan. 29, 1861 as the 34th
state. Kansas lies exactly halfway
between Canada and Mexico and
is the center of the contiguous
48 states. It is a reference
point and all land surveys on
the continent are controlled
from this point. Kansas is bordered
by four states; Oklahoma on
the south, Colorado on the west,
Nebraska on the north, and Missouri
on the east. The capital city
is Topeka and largest city is
Wichita.
Kansas is called the sunflower
state because of so many wild
sunflowers growing on the rolling
plains. It is covered with rich
farmland and the entire state
has a very flat terrain. This
flatland is ideal for growing
wheat and corn which Kansas
is a top producer of. Kansas
is also a national leader in
the sale of cattle and calves
Economy: Agriculture: Cattle,
wheat, sorghum, soybeans, hogs,
corn.
Industry: Transportation equipment,
food processing, printing and
publishing, chemical products,machinery,
apparel, petroleum, mining.
Kansas has a continental climate
which is very unpredictable.
The summers are generally hot
and winters are cold. Kansas
is located in the Great Plains
tornado belt and has tornadoes,
heavy thunderstorms, violent
windstorms and heavy rains.
Kansas has 105 counties:
Allen Anderson Atchison
Barber Barton
Bourbon Brown
Butler Chase
Chautauqua Cherokee
Cheyenne Clark
Clay Cloud
Coffey Comanche
Cowley Crawford Decatur
Dickinson Doniphan
Douglas Edwards
Elk Ellis Ellsworth
Finney Ford Franklin
Geary Gove
Graham Grant
Gray Greeley
Greenwood Hamilton
Harper Harvey
Haskell Hodgeman
Jackson Jefferson
Jewell Johnson
Kearny Kingman
Kiowa Labette
Lane Leavenworth Lincoln
Linn Logan
Lyon McPherson
Marion Marshall Meade
Miami Mitchell
Montgomery
Morris Morton
Nemaha Neosho
Ness Norton
Osage Osborne
Ottawa Pawnee
Phillips Pottawatomie
Pratt Rawlins
Reno Republic
Rice Riley
Rooks Rush
Russell Saline
Scott Sedgwick
Seward Shawnee
Sheridan Sherman
Smith Stafford
Stanton Stevens
Sumner Thomas Trego
Wabaunsee Wallace
Washington
Wichita Wilson
Woodson Wyandotte
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