Knockout Facts About Kansas.

Officially nicknamed “The Sunflower State” but also known as “The Wheat State,” “The Jayhawker State,” and “The Free State,” Kansas was the 34th state to join the United States of America on January 29, 1861.

It has a population of 2,913,314 people (as of 2019), making it the 35th most populous state.

Kansas is bordered by the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Missouri.

With a total of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) of land and water, it is the 15th largest state.

The capital of Kansas is Topeka, situated to the far east of the state.

That’s enough fast facts about the Sunflower State for now, though; we’re here to learn some of the more interesting facts!

The first humans to inhabit modern-day Kansas were the descendants of the first people to cross the Bering Strait from the far east of Russia into Alaska.

It was these descendants who moved into the Kansas region and decided to stay, living a primarily nomadic lifestyle for thousands of years.

It wasn’t until around 3000 BC that the indigenous tribes of Kansas began to live a more stable lifestyle and cultivated crops, although they never entirely gave up their hunter-gatherer roots.