Kansas , midwestern state occupying the center of the coterminous United States. It is bordered by Missouri (E), Oklahoma (S), Colorado (W), and Nebraska (N). Kansas is historically an agricultural state. Manufacturing and services have surpassed agriculture as income producers, but farming is still important to the state's economy, and Kansas follows only Texas and Montana in total agricultural acreage. The nation's top wheat grower, Kansas is also a leading producer of grain sorghum and corn. Hay, soybeans, and sunflowers are also major crops. Cattle and calves, however, constitute the single most valuable agricultural item. Meatpacking and dairy industries are major economic activities, and the Kansas City stockyards are among the nation's largest. Food processing ranked as the state's third largest industry in the 1990s. When the Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado visited (1541) the Kansas area in his search for Quivira, a fabled kingdom of riches, the area was occupied by various Native American groups of the Plains descent, notably the Kansa, the Wichita and the Pawnee. Another Spanish explorer, Juan de Oñate, penetrated the region in 1601. A result of Spanish entry into the region was the introduction of the horse, which revolutionized the life of the Native Americans. While not actually exploring the Kansas area, Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, claimed (c.1682) for France all territory drained by the Mississippi River, including Kansas.

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Kansas has always been a place with vast land, wide skies and big dreams. At least 90% of the land area in Kansas (47 million acres) is devoted to agriculture, and Kansas grows more wheat than any other state in the nation. Other major industries in Kansas are cattle and aircraft. Kansas is home to McConnell Air Force Base and army military bases of Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. The largest segment of true tallgrass prairie remaining in the U.S. can be found in the Flint Hills, in east central Kansas. Dream big and enjoy Kansas hospitality when you rent an apartment.

Enjoy national parks, historical sites, the Old West locale of Dodge City, museums displaying significant fossils, or the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. Wide open spaces provide great opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and hunting. Kansas is renowned for its upland hunting of pheasants and quail. Major cities provide a wide array of apartment rentals.

Kansas provides 19 community colleges, five technical colleges plus six state universities. Kansas University is considered to have one of the most gorgeous campuses in the United States. Apartment rentals are plentiful in college towns in Kansas.