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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 ...
Empire, Kentucky. 4 languages. ... Empire is an unincorporated community and coal town in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. References
A Kentucky horse farm. The equine industry in Kentucky is a major part of the state's agribusiness, including sectors involved in horse breeding and rearing, racing, buying and selling, and tourism. According to a study by the University of Kentucky, the equine industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy in 2012 and generated 40,665 ...
Nevertheless, Kentucky remains the United States' second-largest producer of tobacco. [2] Kentucky is the United States' #1 producer of horses. [2] The equine industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy in 2012 and generated 40,665 jobs. [11] Cattle are a billion-dollar-a-year industry. [1]
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] 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.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
The Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area is a tri-state area where the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky intersect, and a region of the Upland South. The area is defined mainly by the television viewing area and consists of ten Illinois counties, eleven Indiana counties, and nine Kentucky counties, centered upon the Ohio ...
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the north central to northeastern part of the state.