Kansas [State] - Kansas

Japanese: カンザス[州] - カンザス

A central state in the United States. Abbreviated as Kansas or KS. Located in the Arkansas River and Kansas River basins, it is generally flat, but transitions to the Great Plains in the west. It is a world-famous producer of winter wheat, and corn is also cultivated. It is also one of the leading cattle, sheep, and pig livestock farms in the country. It also produces natural gas and oil, and agricultural machinery manufacturing is carried out in cities in the east. It was first settled in the first half of the 18th century, and became a US territory with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It joined the Union as a territory in 1854 and as a free state in 1861. In the 1850s, a civil war broke out over whether it should be a slave state or a free state, and it was called "Bloody Kansas." In the 1860s and 1870s, it developed as a cattle distribution center, and was also the center of cowboy culture represented by Wyatt Earp and others. It is religiously conservative. The state capital is Topeka, and the largest city is Wichita. It has an area of 211,754 km ² . 2,904,021 people (2014).

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Japanese:

米国中部の州。略称Kans.，KS。アーカンソー川，カンザス川などの流域にあり，全般に平地で西部はグレート・プレーンズに移行する。冬小麦の世界的な産地でトウモロコシの栽培も盛ん。牛，羊，豚の畜産も全国有数。天然ガス，石油などの鉱産もあり，東部の諸都市では農業機械工業などが行われる。18世紀前半に最初の植民，1803年のルイジアナ購入で米領になる。1854年準州，1861年自由州として連邦加入。1850年代には奴隷州か自由州かをめぐっての内戦が起き，〈流血のカンザス〉と呼ばれた。1860―1870年代には牛の集散地として発展し，ワイアット・アープらに代表されるカウボーイ文化の中心でもあった。宗教的には保守。州都トピーカ，最大都市ウィチタ。21万1754km²。290万4021人（2014）。

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