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Kansas is a midwestern state in the United States. The U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is KS. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west. It is located equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. The geographic center of North America is located in Osborne County. This spot is used as the central reference point for all maps produced by the government. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is located in Smith County near Lebanon, Kansas, and the geographic center of Kansas is located in Barton County.

Kansas, lying in the great central plain of the United States, has a generally flat or undulating surface. Its altitude above the sea ranges from 750 feet at the mouth of the Kansas River to 4000 feet on the western border. (Mount Sunflower is the highest point.) The rivers flow through bottomlands, varying from ¼ to 6 miles in width, and bounded by bluffs, rising 50 to 300 feet. The Missouri River forms nearly 75 miles of the state's northeastern boundary. The Kansas River, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, joins the Missouri at Kansas City, after a course of 150 miles across the state. The Arkansas River, rising in Colorado, flows with a tortuous course, for nearly 500 miles, across three-fourths of the state. It forms, with its tributaries, the Little Arkansas, Walnut, Cow Creek, Cimarron, Verdigris (which is the lowest point in Kansas at 680 feet), and the Neosho, the southern drainage system of the state. Other important rivers are the Saline and Solomon, tributaries of the Smoky Hill River; the Big Blue, Delaware, and Wakarusa, which flow into the Kansas River; and the Marais des Cygnes, a tributary of the Missouri River.

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Kansas is a rolling prairie land that is remarkably homogeneous. The elevation of the state gains nearly 3,000 feet from east to west. A few miles from the Colorado border is the high point of the state, Mt. Sunflower, which reaches 4,039 feet. This area of the state is known as the high plains and was once covered by shortgrass prairie. Today most of the region is cultivated with only small parcels of native prairie lands. The northwestern area is carved by many streams and rivers. Interstate 70 is the major thorofare through this region.

Monument Rocks National Landmark preserves a portion of the chalk stone formations that resemble pillars reaching up from the prairie. This region contains the largest production of sunflowers in Kansas. The southern portion of western Kansas contains Cimarron National Grasslands, which preserves a small portion of the natural grasslands that once covered the area. Flowing through this region is the Arkansas River on its way to the Mississippi River.

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Abilene Arkansas City Atchison Belleville Beloit Coffeyville Colby Concordia De Soto	Dodge City El Dorado Emporia Garden City Gardner Goodland Great Bend Hays Holton	Independence Iola Junction City Kansas City Lawrence Leavenworth Lenexa Liberal Manhattan	Marysville McPherson Merriam Newton Olathe Ottawa Overland Park Park City Parsons	Pittsburg Pratt Russell Salina Topeka Wakeeney Wamego Wichita Winfield

The geographical centre of North America, Kansas is a major agricultural area, with vast areas of farmland. As highway signs remind travellers, ‘Every Kansas farmer feeds 75 people – and you.’ It was through Kansas that families on the Oregon and Santa Fe trails drove their wagons westwards in search of new homesteads, while cowboys on the Chisholm Trail drove vast herds of longhorns north in search of the railroads. To cater for the new population, cowtowns like Abilene and Dodge City were born, and as whites forced Native Americans to move westwards, fierce battles over land erupted. Later, feuds over Kansas’s maintenance of slavery gave rise to the term ‘Bleeding Kansas’.

Today, the State boasts many monuments to its Old West past, as well as numerous recreation centres, reservoirs and rivers offering all kinds of outdoor pursuits. Attractions include the restored cattle town of Dodge City. Here, it is worth visiting the Boot Hill Museum which recreates the Boot Hill Cemetery and Front Street as they looked in the 1870s.

The amount of small historic sites and museums is remarkable in Kansas. (Every exit on Interstate 70 has one.) Fishing, hiking, swimming facilities are available at most state parks and reservoirs that pervade Kansas.