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Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville ...
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
C. Cadiz, Kentucky; Calhoun, Kentucky; California, Kentucky; Calvert City, Kentucky; Camargo, Kentucky; Cambridge, Kentucky; Campbellsburg, Kentucky; Campbellsville ...
Frankfort is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kentucky.It is a home rule-class city and the seat of Franklin County. [5] [6] The population was 28,602 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 13th most populous city in Kentucky, but the 4th least populous U.S. state capital. [7]
Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 59th-most populous city in the United States.
Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city [3] and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States.The population was 28,531 at the 2010 census, [4] and was estimated at 31,394 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020, making it the ninth-most populous city in the state.
In 1854, the city name was changed to Ashland, after Henry Clay's Lexington estate and to reflect the city's growing industrial base. The city's early industrial growth was a result of the Ohio Valley's pig iron industry and, particularly, the 1854 charter of the Kentucky Iron, Coal, and Manufacturing Company by the Kentucky General Assembly. [5]
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] [6] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.