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Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado, in 1541, is considered the first European to have traveled this region. Sieur de la Salle's extensive land claims for France (1682) included present-day Kansas. Ceded to Spain by France in 1763, the territory reverted to France in 1800 and was sold to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Capital: Topeka
Motto: Ad astra per aspera (To the stars through difficulties)
State symbols:
flower sunflower (1903)
tree cottonwood (1937)
animal buffalo (1955)
song “Home on the Range” (1947)
Nicknames: Sunflower State; Jayhawk State
Origin of name: From a Sioux word meaning “people of the south wind”
10 largest cities (2005 est.): Wichita, 354,865; Overland Park, 164,811; Kansas City, 144,210; Topeka, 121,946; Olathe, 111,334; Lawrence, 81,816; Shawnee, 57,628; Manhattan, 48,668; Salina, 45,956; Lenexa, 43,434
Land area: 81,815 sq mi. (211,901 sq km)
Geographic center: In Barton Co., 15 mi. NE of Great Bend
Number of counties: 105
Largest county by population and area: Johnson, 506,562 (2005); Butler, 1,428 sq mi.
State parks: 24
Residents: Kansan
2005 resident population est.: 2,744,687