Outline of Kansas

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Kansas:
Kansas – U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning.

General reference

Names
* Common name: Kansas
** Pronunciation:
Official name: State of Kansas
* Abbreviations and name codes
** Postal symbol: KS
** ISO 3166-2 code: US-KS
** Internet second-level domain: .ks.us
* Nicknames
** America's Bread Basket
** Sunflower State
** Wheat State
Adjectival: Kansas
Demonym: Kansan

Geography of Kansas

Geography of Kansas

Kansas is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America
Location
* Northern Hemisphere
* Western Hemisphere
** Americas
*** North America
**** Anglo America
**** Northern America
***** United States of America
****** Contiguous United States
******* Central United States
******** West North Central States
******* Midwestern United States
***** Great Plains
Population of Kansas: 2,853,118
Area of Kansas:
Atlas of Kansas

Places in Kansas

Environment of Kansas

Natural geographic features of Kansas

Regions of Kansas

Administrative divisions of Kansas

The 105 counties of the state of Kansas
* Municipalities in Kansas
** Cities in Kansas
*** State capital of Kansas:
*** City nicknames in Kansas

Demography of Kansas

Demographics of Kansas

Government and politics of Kansas

Branches of the government of Kansas

Government of Kansas

Executive branch of the government of Kansas

Legislative branch of the government of Kansas

Judicial branch of the government of Kansas

Courts of Kansas

Supreme Court of Kansas

Law and order in Kansas

Laws by type

Military in Kansas

History of Kansas

History of Kansas

History of Kansas, by period

Prehistory of Kansas
French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764
* Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
Spanish district of Alta Luisiana, 1764–1803
* Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800
French district of Haute-Louisiane, 1803
* Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Unorganized U.S. territory created by the Louisiana Purchase, 1803–1804
* Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804–1806
District of Louisiana, 1804–1805
Territory of Louisiana, 1805–1812
* Pike Expedition, 1806–1807
Territory of Missouri, 1812–1821
* War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815
** Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814
* Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819
Unorganized Territory, 1821–1854
* Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880
* Mexican–American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
** Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848
* Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851
Territory of Kansas, 1854–1861
* Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854
* History of slavery in Kansas
* Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1859
* Pike's Peak Gold Rush, 1858–1861
* Territory of Jefferson, 1859–1861
* Pony Express, 1860–1861
State of Kansas becomes 34th State admitted to the United States of America on January 29, 1861
* American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865
** Kansas in the American Civil War
*** Price's Raid, September 27 – December 2, 1864
* Comanche Campaign, 1868–1874
* Spanish–American War, April 25 – August 12, 1898
* Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th President of the United States on January 20, 1953
* United States Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954

History of Kansas, by region

By city
* History of Kansas City

History of Kansas, by subject

Culture of Kansas

Culture of Kansas

The Arts in Kansas

Music of Kansas

Sports in Kansas

Sports in Kansas

Economy and infrastructure of Kansas

Economy of Kansas

Education in Kansas

Education in Kansas