English > Kan.: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A state in midwestern United States. |
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| Synonyms | Kansas, Sunflower State, KS |
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| Instance of | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Part of | Midwest, middle west, midwestern United States | The north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
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| United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean |
| Parts | Abilene | A town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka |
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| Arkansas, Arkansas River | A river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River |
| Chisholm Trail | A former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas |
| Dodge City | A town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River |
| Hays | A town in central Kansas |
| Kansas, Kansas River, Kaw River | A river in northeastern Kansas |
| Kansas City | A city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri |
| Lawrence | A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River |
| Neosho, Neosho River | A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River |
| Republican, Republican River | A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas |
| Salina | A town in central Kansas |
| Topeka, capital of Kansas | The capital of the state of Kansas |
| Wichita | The largest city in Kansas |
| Spanish | Kansas |
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