Place

Kansas

Not who you're looking for? Others named Kansas: 1974 studio album by Kansas · census-designated place in northwestern Liberty Township, Se · episode of Once Upon a Time (S3 E20) · 1988 film directed by David Stevens

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Overview

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north, Colorado to the west, Oklahoma to the south, and Missouri to the east. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri, which straddles the border of Kansas and Missouri.

Notable quotes

“Kansas law puts transgender people in an impossible position. For transgender people, using the restroom consistent with their gender and how they live their lives, is now against the law in government buildings. But using the restroom consistent with their sex at birth in government buildings may out them as transgender and be unsafe. Either way, transgender people may be punished and harassed.”
— American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, the New Kansas Law Targeting Transgender People", 27 February 2026
“Few Americans know how savagely the Civil War raged or how strange and varied were its issues in what is now Oklahoma and the neighboring states of Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Rifles for Watie was faithfully written against the historical backdrop of the conflict in this seldom-publicized, Far-Western theater.”
— Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie (1957), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, hardcover, p. xi
“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!”
— Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (1939). [Note: This line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema].
“Kansas, however whittled down, was still a giant in size and potential productivity. Conceived in cold calculation, born in a rending hatred, she was to be baptized in blood. It was not a christening. It was a deep-river baptism.”
— Alice Nichols, Bleeding Kansas (1954), New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover, p. 254
“Land Speculators and One Horse politicians. Blood and thunder, drouth and exploitation. Certainly no new state ever chose a more fitting motto than did young Kansas. Ad Astra per Aspera. It had been and would always be 'To the stars by hard ways.”
— Alice Nichols, Bleeding Kansas (1954), New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover, p. 258-259
“I grew up in Kansas, General. I'm about as American as it gets.”
— Zack Snyder (director), David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan (writers), Man of Steel (2013)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Overview

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north, Colorado to the west, Oklahoma to the south, and Missouri to the east. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri, which straddles the border of Kansas and Missouri.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Kansas: 1974 studio album by Kansas · census-designated place in northwestern Liberty Township, Se · episode of Once Upon a Time (S3 E20) · 1988 film directed by David Stevens

Notable quotes

“Kansas law puts transgender people in an impossible position. For transgender people, using the restroom consistent with their gender and how they live their lives, is now against the law in government buildings. But using the restroom consistent with their sex at birth in government buildings may out them as transgender and be unsafe. Either way, transgender people may be punished and harassed.”
— American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, the New Kansas Law Targeting Transgender People", 27 February 2026
“Few Americans know how savagely the Civil War raged or how strange and varied were its issues in what is now Oklahoma and the neighboring states of Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Rifles for Watie was faithfully written against the historical backdrop of the conflict in this seldom-publicized, Far-Western theater.”
— Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie (1957), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, hardcover, p. xi
“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!”
— Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (1939). [Note: This line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema].
“Kansas, however whittled down, was still a giant in size and potential productivity. Conceived in cold calculation, born in a rending hatred, she was to be baptized in blood. It was not a christening. It was a deep-river baptism.”
— Alice Nichols, Bleeding Kansas (1954), New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover, p. 254
“Land Speculators and One Horse politicians. Blood and thunder, drouth and exploitation. Certainly no new state ever chose a more fitting motto than did young Kansas. Ad Astra per Aspera. It had been and would always be 'To the stars by hard ways.”
— Alice Nichols, Bleeding Kansas (1954), New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover, p. 258-259
“I grew up in Kansas, General. I'm about as American as it gets.”
— Zack Snyder (director), David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan (writers), Man of Steel (2013)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.