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The name Kansas derives from the Algonquian term, Akansa, for the Quapaw people. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,039 feet (1,231 meters). Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area, the 36th most-populous of the 50 states, with a population of 2,940,865 according to the 2020 census, and the 10th least densely populated. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State".īy 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate.

The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north Missouri to the east Oklahoma to the south and Colorado to the west. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita.

Kansas ( / ˈ k æ n z ə s/ ( listen)) is a state in the Midwestern United States.